Summaries by Inventor Barcellona, Marcos
Tissue engineering scaffold for cell differentiation and delivery to intervertebral disc for treating lower back pain
Barcellona, Marcos ; Setton, Lori ; Speer, Julie
T-019297
Barcellona, Marcos ; Setton, Lori ; Speer, Julie
T-019297
— Background: Severe low back pain and disability can result from intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration caused by cell phenotype changes in the nucleus pulposus (NP) region. While autologous stem cells have be used to treat lower back pain, currently there are no tools to control differentiation of…