Delivering mesenchymal stem cells in collagen microsphere carriers to rabbit degenerative disc: Reduced risk of osteophyte formation

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 20, Issue 9-10, 2014, Pages 1379-1391

  Li, Yuk Yin ^a   Diao, Hua Jia ^a   Chik, Tze Kit ^a   Chow, Cin Ting ^a   An, Xiao Meng ^a   Leung, Victor ^b   Cheung, Kenneth Man Chi ^b   Chan, Barbara Pui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FLOWCHARTING; HYDRATION; MICROSPHERES; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

BIOMECHANICAL EVALUATION; COLLAGEN NANOFIBERS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS; MATRIX COMPOSITION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICROSPHERE CARRIER; POROUS MICROSPHERES;

CELL CULTURE;

COLLAGEN; MICROSPHERE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLID COLLAGEN MICROSPHERE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BIOMECHANICS; BONE MATRIX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYDRATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HEIGHT; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MICROENCAPSULATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPHYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT MODEL; RISK REDUCTION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RABBIT; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MICROSPHERES; OSTEOPHYTE; RABBITS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899830821     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2013.0498     Document Type: Article

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