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Effects of hypoxias and scaffold architecture on rabbit mesenchymal stem cell differentiation towards a nucleus pulposus-like phenotype.
Biomaterials - 1 Nov 2011
Feng Ganjun, Jin Xiaobing, Hu Jiang, Ma Haiyun, Gupte Melanie J, Liu Hao, Ma Peter X
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Nucleus pulposus grafts are needed for patients requiring replacement of their degenerated intervertebral discs. Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a potential autologous stem cell source for the nucleus pulposus regeneration. One of the key issues of constructing functional nucleus pulposus using MSCs, however, is to differentiate MSCs into nucleus pulposus phenotype in vitro and to maintain...
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