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Original Article

Extracts of Muscle from Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Enhance Neurite Outgrowth from Ventral Spinal Cord Explants of rat Embryo

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Pages 231-235 | Received 30 Jan 1989, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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