Reactive astrocyte scar and axon regeneration: suppressor or facilitator?
Yosuke Ohtake1, George M Smith1, Shuxin Li1
1Shriners Hospitals Pediatric Research Center, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Department of Neuroscience, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Neural Regeneration Research
|September 16, 2016
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