Nucleus pulposus repair with cultured autologous elastic cartilage derived chondrocytes

Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 363-373

  Gorenšek, Matevž ^a   Joksimović, Čedomir ^b   Kregar Velikonja, Nevenka ^a   Gorenšek, Miro ^c   Knežević, Miomir ^a   Jeras, Matjaž ^d   Pavlovčič, Vinko ^c   Cör, Andrej ^b  

^a Educell Ljubljana ^*  (Slovenia)

^b Medical Faculty   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d BLOOD TRANSFUSION CENTRE OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Chondrocytes; Hyaline like Cartilage; Nucleus Pulposus; Tissue Engineering

Indexed keywords

HYALIN;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR CARTILAGE; ELASTIC FIBER; HISTOLOGY; IMPLANTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; RABBIT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 18244419494     PISSN: 14258153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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