Combined Tissue Engineering Provides New Hope for Spinal Disc Herniations (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Combined Tissue Engineering Provides New Hope for Spinal Disc Herniations (1 of 2)

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Multiphoton images showing the alignment of collagen in an intervertebral disc in a sheep treated with the collagen patch. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 11, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.R. Sloan at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY; and colleagues was titled, "Combined nucleus pulposus augmentation and annulus fibrosus repair prevents acute intervertebral disc degeneration after discectomy."

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[Credit: S.R. Sloan et al., Science Translational Medicine (2020)]

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