Issues concerning the biological repair of intervertebral disc degeneration

Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 226-227

  Peng, Baogan ^a  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL OF CHINESE PEOPLE'S ARMED POLICE FORCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PROTEOGLYCAN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BONE REGENERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DRUG SCREENING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISCITIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK;

EID: 43149106714     PISSN: 17458382     EISSN: 17458390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncprheum0771     Document Type: Article

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