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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Effects of Wharton's jelly cells of the human umbilical cord on acute spinal cord injury in rats, and expression of interleukin-1β and nerve growth factor in spinal cord tissues

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Pages 1254-1258 | Received 16 Jan 2015, Accepted 11 Feb 2015, Published online: 24 Mar 2015

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