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Leptin receptor–expressing cells represent a distinct subpopulation of notochord-derived cells and are essential for disc homoeostasis
23 Dec 2019
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) remains to be an intractable clinical challenge. Although IDD is characterised by loss of notochordal cells (NCs) and dysfunction of nucleus pulposus (NP) cells, little is known about the origin, heterogeneity, fate and maintenance of NCs and NP cells, which further stunts the therapeutic development. Thus, effective tools to spatially and temporally...
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