%0 Journal Article %T Mesenchymal stem cells: potential application in intervertebral disc regeneration %A Aiqun Wei %A Ashish Diwan %A Bojiang Shen %A Lisa Williams %J SCIE-indexed Journal %D 2014 %X Chronic low back pain is a widespread condition which affects a large portion of the population and is the predominant cause of disability, resulting in huge cost implications, economic outlay and health provisions (1). Causing approximately $50 billion of estimated expenditure in the USA alone and with 210,000 Australians developing chronic low back pain annually the costs are increasing, with the direct cost of $1.2 billion in Australia in 2001 (2,3) %U http://tp.amegroups.com/article/view/3544/4407