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A New Culture System to Study the Metabolism of the Intervertebral Disc In Vitro
Chiba, Kazuhiro ; Andersson, Gunnar B. J.; Masuda, Koichi ; Momohara, Shigeki ; Williams, James M.; Thonar, Eugene J‐M. A.
1998 Spine
doi: N/Apmid: N/A
This study determined whether entrapment of a rabbit intervertebral disc in alginate gel helped to promote the retention of normal metabolic activities by the nucleus pulposus and anulus fibrosus in tissue culture.