Article
Harnessing Metabolic Priming to Engineer Human Nucleus Pulposus Macromass Overcoming Scalability-Phenotype Tradeoff.
Cell proliferation - 1 Sept 2026
Wang Yingbo, Hu Ou, Wu Jian, Huang Sha, Lin Peng, Yan Pulin, Li Yangyang, Jin Huaijian, Wu Yutong, Zhu Jun, Pu Jungang, Hu Bo, He Jian, Gan Yibo, Liu Peng
Abstract excerpt
Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) represents a major global health challenge, primarily due to the inability of current therapies to reverse the progressive loss of nucleus pulposus (NP) tissue and function. Transplanting bioactive substitutes offers potential for overcoming this limitation. However, current strategies fail to generate large-sized, functional human NP substitutes, impeded by a fundamental...
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- Humans
- Nucleus Pulposus
- Collagen Type II
- Aggrecans
- Cell Proliferation
- Phenotype
