Treatment of intervertebral disc degenaration using cells derived from umbilical cord and hydrogel tissue

摘要

A hydrogel and a homogenous population isolated from cells obtained from human umbilical cord tissue, or a pharmaceutical composition comprising said hydrogel and homogeneous population isolated from cells, for use in the treatment of a disease or condition related to the degeneration of the intervertebral disc, in which the treatment comprises the improvement of the cellularity and architecture of a degenerated disc, in which the umbilical cord tissue is substantially free of blood and the isolated homogeneous population of cells is capable of self-renewal and expansion in culture , has the potential to differentiate and does not express CD117 or telomerase.