Seminar - “Polysaccharide Hydrogels for Soft Tissue Regeneration”, by Catherine Le Visage, Research Director and Deputy Director, School of Dental Surgery, University of Nantes, France
ABSTRACT: The Regenerative Medicine and Skeleton laboratory (INSERM U1229, Nantes, France) has developed an injectable and self-hardening silated-HydroxyPropylMethyl Cellulose (Si-HPMC) hydrogel. In this talk, we will go through our recent approaches using Si-HPMC hydrogels as a drug and/or cell carrier in the context of degenerative diseases. Intervertebral disc (IVD) disease is a major cause of low back pain and a low-invasive approach for intradiscal delivery of therapeutics is of particular interest.