Stem Cells and Organ Transplantation: Resetting Our Biological Clocks

The human body has only a limited ability to repair itself. Illness, injury, and aging can overwhelm its built-in capability to replace dysfunctional, damaged, or destroyed tissues. We can at best only partly regenerate our organs and cannot grow back a whole limb.

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Autor principal: Stratmann, H. G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7124065/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16015-3_13
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spelling pubmed-71240652020-04-06 Stem Cells and Organ Transplantation: Resetting Our Biological Clocks Stratmann, H. G. Using Medicine in Science Fiction Article The human body has only a limited ability to repair itself. Illness, injury, and aging can overwhelm its built-in capability to replace dysfunctional, damaged, or destroyed tissues. We can at best only partly regenerate our organs and cannot grow back a whole limb. 2015-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7124065/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16015-3_13 Text en © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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