Nonviral Gene Delivery of Growth and Differentiation Factor 5 to Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Injected into a 3D Bovine Intervertebral Disc Organ Culture System

Region Specific Response of Intervertebral Disc Cells to Complex Dynamic Loading: An Organ Culture Study Using a Dynamic Torsion-Compression Bioreactor

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Physiological testosterone levels enhance chondrogenic extracellular matrix synthesis by male intervertebral disc cells in vitro, but not by mesenchymal stem cells

(2013) Alessandro Bertolo et al.   Spine Journal

Immunoregulatory properties of clinical grade mesenchymal stromal cells: evidence, uncertainties, and clinical application

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Mesenchymal stem cells: A revolution in therapeutic strategies of age-related diseases

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Enhancing human nucleus pulposus cells for biological treatment approaches of degenerative intervertebral disc diseases: a systematic review

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Preparation of Intact Bovine Tail Intervertebral Discs for Organ Culture

(2012) Samantha C.W. Chan et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

The evolutionary importance of cell ratio between notochordal and nucleus pulposus cells: an experimental 3-D co-culture study

(2011) Benjamin Gantenbein-Ritter et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Orthopedic gene therapy-lost in translation?

(2011) C.H. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

Stem Cell Regeneration of the Intervertebral Disk

(2011) Daisuke Sakai   ORTHOPEDIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

A critical review of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 trials in spinal surgery: emerging safety concerns and lessons learned

(2011) Eugene J. Carragee et al.   Spine Journal

GDF5 single-nucleotide polymorphism rs143383 is associated with lumbar disc degeneration in Northern European women

(2010) F. M. K. Williams et al.   ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM

Differential response of human bone marrow stromal cells to either TGF-β1 or rhGDF-5

(2010) Benjamin Gantenbein-Ritter et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Transcriptional profiling of bovine intervertebral disc cells: implications for identification of normal and degenerate human intervertebral disc cell phenotypes

(2010) Ben M Minogue et al.   ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY

Nucleus pulposus tissue engineering: a brief review

(2009) Xinlin Yang et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Mesenchymal stem cells in regenerative medicine: Opportunities and challenges for articular cartilage and intervertebral disc tissue engineering

(2009) Stephen M. Richardson et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

Variations in gene and protein expression in human nucleus pulposus in comparison with annulus fibrosus and cartilage cells: potential associations with aging and degeneration

(2009) J. Rutges et al.   OSTEOARTHRITIS AND CARTILAGE

Differential Phenotype of Intervertebral Disc Cells

(2009) Daisuke Sakai et al.   SPINE

A Phenotypic Comparison of Proteoglycan Production of Intervertebral Disc Cells Isolated from Rats, Rabbits, and Bovine Tails; Which Animal Model is Most Suitable to Study Tissue Engineering and Biological Repair of Human Disc Disorders?

(2009) Tsuyoshi Miyazaki et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Posterior lumbar interbody fusion using rhBMP-2

(2008) Hans Jörg Meisel et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Nucleus pulposus explant culture model

(2008) Gang Feng et al.   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH