Enhancing intervertebral disc repair and regeneration through biology: Platelet-rich plasma as an alternative strategy

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Shan Zheng ^a   Rui, Yun Feng ^a   Tan, Qi ^b   Wang, Chen ^a  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 5; MESSENGER RNA; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VASCULOTROPIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AGING; BIOMECHANICS; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHONDROGENESIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EARLY INTERVENTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEOGLYCAN SYNTHESIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; SPINE SURGERY; TENSILE STRENGTH; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; REGENERATION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84887521879     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar4353     Document Type: Review

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