Reprogramming Cells for Brain Repair
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Pre-Clinical Transplants
3. Clinical Transplants
4. Reprogramming
5. Direct Reprogramming
6. The Mechanism of Cell Reprogramming
7. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Conflict of Interest
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Chicago/Turabian StyleGuarino, Alyx T., and Randall D. McKinnon. 2013. "Reprogramming Cells for Brain Repair" Brain Sciences 3, no. 3: 1215-1228. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci3031215