Adequacy of herniated disc tissue as a cell source for nucleus pulposus regeneration: Laboratory investigation

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 273-280

  Hegewald, Aldemar A ^a,b   Endres, Michaela ^c,d   Abbushi, Alexander ^c   Cabraja, Mario ^c   Woiciechowsky, Christian ^c   Schmieder, Kirsten ^b   Kaps, Christian ^d   Thomé, Claudius ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d TRANSTISSUE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disc cell; Intervertebral disc; Nucleus pulposus; Regeneration; Spine; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

AGGRECAN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL DEGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MALE; MARKER GENE; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; SERUM;

ADULT; AGGRECANS; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COLLAGEN TYPE II; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; REGENERATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 79551696997     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.10.SPINE10223     Document Type: Article

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