Effects of implantation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, disc distraction and combined therapy on reversing degeneration of the intervertebral disc

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 726-736

  Hee, H T ^a   Ismail, H D ^a,b   Lim, C T ^a   Goh, J C H ^a   Wong, H K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXIAL DISTRACTION; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEIGHT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BONE WIRES; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; OSTEOGENESIS, DISTRACTION; RABBITS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGENERATION; WEIGHT-BEARING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951780826     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.92B5.23015     Document Type: Article

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