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Newman, M.B., Freeman, T.B., Davis, C.D., Sanberg, P.R. (2003). Neural Stem Cells for Cellular Therapy in Humans. In: Bottenstein, J.E. (eds) Neural Stem Cells. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48356-4_13

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