椎间盘退变生物学治疗的研究进展

椎间盘退变所致的颈肩腰腿痛严重影响许多患者的生活及工作,目前的治疗方法主要侧重于缓解疼痛症状或神经受压症状,而无法阻止椎间盘退变的进程,导致疾病具有高复发率。近年来学者们开始广泛研究椎间盘退变的生物学治疗方法,即通过生物分子治疗、基因治疗、细胞治疗和组织工程等方法来修复和重塑椎间盘,以期从根本上解决椎间盘退变的问题,而上述方法大多处于动物实验或体外实验阶段,临床应用尚存在诸多挑战。

Biological treatment for intervertebral disc degeneration

Neck shoulder pain or lumbocrural pain caused by intervertebral disc degeneration(IDD) could seriously affect the qualities life of patients. Current treatments mainly focus on alleviating pain and the symptoms of nerve compression,which could not radically stop the process of intervertebral disc degeneration,but conversely lead to high recurrence rate. In recent years,scholars have turned to study the biological treatment for repair and rebuild the intervertebral disc by biological molecular therapy,gene therapy,cell therapy and tissue engineering to solve the problem of intervertebral disc degeneration,while most of the above methods are still in animal experiments or in vitro experiments and the clinical application is still a long way to go.