Stem Cell Therapy and Exercise for Treatment of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration

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Stem cell treatment for IDD. (a) In the endogenous stem cell treatment, efforts of activating the stem cells in the NP are made to improve the degeneration of the IVD. (b) In the exogenous stem cell treatment, stem cells from other tissues like MSCs and iPSCs are delivered into the disc via intradiscal injection with or without the differentiation before utilization.

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