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Application trends and strategies of hydrogel delivery systems in intervertebral disc degeneration: A bibliometric review.
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- From molecular regulation to tissue repair: hydrogels in the fight against intervertebral disc degeneration.Annals of medicine · 2025Review
- [Research progress of hydrogel-based growth factors for treatment of intervertebral disc degeneration].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2025Review
- Crosslinking stabilization strategy: A novel approach to cartilage-like repair of annulus fibrosus (AF) defects.Materials today. Bio · 2025Article
- Engineering extracellular matrix-based hydrogels for intervertebral disc regeneration.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Hydrogels are widely used to explore emerging minimally invasive strategies for intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) due to their suitability as drug and cell delivery vehicles. There has been no review of the latest research trends and strategies of hydrogel delivery systems in IVDD for the last decade. In this study, we identify the application trends and strategies in this field through bibliometric analysis, including aspects such as publication years, countries and institutions, authors and publications, and co-occurrence of keywords. The results reveal that the literature in this field has been receiving increasing attention with a trend of growth annually. Subsequently, the hotspots of hydrogels in this field were described and discussed in detail, and we proposed the "four core factors", hydrogels, cells, cell stimulators, and microenvironmental regulation, required for a multifunctional hydrogel for IVDD. Finally, we discuss the popular and emerging mechanistic strategies of hydrogel therapy for IVDD in terms of five aspects: fundamental pathologic changes in IVDD, counteracting cellular senescence, counteracting cell death, improving organelle function, and replenishing exogenous cells. This study provides a reference and a new perspective for future research in this urgently needed field.
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