Vertebral body versus iliac crest bone marrow as a source of multipotential stromal cells: Comparison of processing techniques, tri-lineage differentiation and application on a scaffold for spine fusion

• Evangelos M. Fragkakis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Evangelos M. Fragkakis, Jehan Jomaa El-Jawhari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, The Leeds Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Jehan Jomaa El-Jawhari ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Evangelos M. Fragkakis, Jehan Jomaa El-Jawhari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Clinical pathology department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

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• Robert A. Dunsmuir,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Leeds Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Peter A. Millner,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Leeds Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Abhay S. Rao,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Leeds Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Karen T. Henshaw,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Ippokratis Pountos,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Academic Unit of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Elena Jones,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Peter V. Giannoudis

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: P.Giannoudis@leeds.ac.uk

  Affiliations Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Academic Unit of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5205-7696

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