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Augmentation of degenerated intervertebral discs by implantation of bone-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSC). Harvested MSC can be cultivated as progenitor cells and injected directly into the disc matrix. Alternatively, the progenitor cells can be differentiated in vitro to a disc cell-like phenotype and then injected into the disc matrix
