A Potential Application of Glia-to-Neuron Conversion for the Treatment of Neurological Disorders
Sufang Liu1, Feng Tao1,2
1Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, Dallas, TX, USA.
Current Neuropharmacology
|November 3, 2021
Abstract
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