Chen, Sheng http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1770-5018
Wu, Xiaohao
Lai, Yumei
Chen, Di
Bai, Xiaochun http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9631-4781
Liu, Sheng
Wu, Yongchao
Chen, Mingjue
Lai, Yuxiao
Cao, Huiling
Shao, Zengwu
Xiao, Guozhi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4269-2450
Article History
Received: 1 June 2021
Revised: 14 August 2021
Accepted: 9 September 2021
First Online: 10 January 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the IACUC of SUSTC (No. SUSTC-JY2020119).
: Human nucleus pulposus samples were obtained from patients who were diagnosed with lumbar disc herniation and underwent nucleotomy operations, following informed written patient consent with approval from The Ethics Committee of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (No. [2021] IEC (134)).