Injection of human umbilical tissue-derived cells into the nucleus pulposus alters the course of intervertebral disc degeneration in vivo

Spine Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 263-272

  Leckie, Steven K ^a   Sowa, Gwendolyn A ^a   Bechara, Bernard P ^a   Hartman, Robert A ^a   Coelho, Joao Paulo ^a   Witt, William T ^a   Dong, Qing D ^a   Bowman, Brent W ^a   Bell, Kevin M ^a   Vo, Nam V ^a   Kramer, Brian C ^b   Kang, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Advanced Technologies and Regenerative Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular therapy; Intervertebral disc degeneration; Umbilical tissue derived cells

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE MATURATION; CELL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROGEL; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUNCTURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROBOTICS; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UMBILICAL CORD; UMBILICAL TISSUE DERIVED CELL; VERTEBRA COMPRESSION; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RABBITS; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 84875547205     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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