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Correction: Growing a backbone – functional biomaterials and structures for intervertebral disc (IVD) repair and regeneration: challenges, innovations, and future directions
Matthew D.
Harmon
ab,
Daisy M.
Ramos
ab,
D.
Nithyadevi
b,
Rosalie
Bordett
b,
Swetha
Rudraiah
c,
Syam P.
Nukavarapu
abd,
Isaac L.
Moss
b and
Sangamesh G.
Kumbar
*abd
aDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. E-mail: Kumbar@uchc.edu; Fax: +1 860 679 1553; Tel: +1 860 679 3955
bDepartment of Orthopedics Surgery, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, CT, USA
cDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Saint Joseph, Hartford, CT, USA
dDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
First published on 11th March 2021
Abstract
Correction for ‘Growing a backbone – functional biomaterials and structures for intervertebral disc (IVD) repair and regeneration: challenges, innovations, and future directions’ by Matthew D. Harmon et al., Biomater. Sci., 2020, 8, 1216–1239, DOI: 10.1039/C9BM01288E.
The authors regret that copyright permission was not obtained for the upper panel of images in Fig. 3 in the original article.
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| Fig. 3 Engineering components for IVD repair and regeneration. The upper left panel shows a healthy human disc and the upper right panel shows a degenerated disc. This has been reproduced with permission from Elsevier.1 Below are depicted the main approaches towards regenerative medicine, i.e. the application of biomaterials, regenerative factors inhibiting inflammation and exogenously added cells. | ||
This permission has now been granted and the correct figure caption and full citation can be seen here.
The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.
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