Olfactory ensheathing cells for spinal cord repair: crucial differences between subpopulations of the glia
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Coculture of Axotomized Rat Retinal Ganglion Neurons with Olfactory Ensheathing Glia, as an In Vitro Model of Adult Axonal Regeneration
Published on: November 2, 2020
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Jenny A K Ekberg1, James A St John2
1Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ; School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Neural Regeneration Research
|November 26, 2015
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