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What is the potential of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells to successfully treat human spinal cord injury?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Neurology, September 2011
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Title
What is the potential of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells to successfully treat human spinal cord injury?
Published in
BMC Neurology, September 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2377-11-113
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Authors

Robert A Watson, Trevor M Yeung

Abstract

Spinal cord injury is a serious and debilitating condition, affecting millions of people worldwide. Long seen as a permanent injury, recent advances in stem cell research have brought closer the possibility of repairing the spinal cord. One such approach involves injecting oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, derived from human embryonic stem cells, into the injured spinal cord in the hope that they will initiate repair. A phase I clinical trial of this therapy was started in mid 2010 and is currently underway.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 4%
Korea, Republic of 1 1%
Italy 1 1%
Unknown 68 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 23%
Student > Bachelor 11 15%
Researcher 9 12%
Student > Master 8 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 8%
Other 12 16%
Unknown 10 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 27 37%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 19%
Neuroscience 7 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 8%
Engineering 3 4%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 11 15%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 September 2011.
All research outputs
#13,857,114
of 22,651,245 outputs
Outputs from BMC Neurology
#1,169
of 2,408 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#85,061
of 130,603 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Neurology
#21
of 38 outputs
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