Stem cell applications in intervertebral disc repair

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-32

  Hiyama, A ^a   Mochida, J ^a   Sakai, D ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell therapy; Intervertebral disc cell; Mesenchymal stem cell; Nucleus pulposus; Regeneration; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ANNULUS FIBROSUS; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CULTURE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK REPAIR; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; REVIEW; SPINE SURGERY; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; REGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 58149166817     PISSN: 01455680     EISSN: 1165158X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1170/T827     Document Type: Review

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