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SUBMITTER: Tsuji O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3250290 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tsuji Osahiko O Miura Kyoko K Fujiyoshi Kanehiro K Momoshima Suketaka S Nakamura Masaya M Okano Hideyuki H
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 20111001 4
Reports of functional recovery from spinal cord injury after the transplantation of rat fetus-derived neural stem cells and embryonic stem cells has raised great expectations for the successful clinical use of stem cell transplantation therapy. However, the ethical issues involved in destroying human embryos or fertilized oocytes to obtain stem cells have been a major obstacle to developing clinically useful stem cell sources, and the transplantation of stem cells isolated from other human embry ...[more]