Mesenchymal Stem Cells May Alleviate the Intervertebral Disc Degeneration by Reducing the Oxidative Stress in Nucleus Pulposus Cells

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Correlation analysis between oxidative stress and autophagy in degenerative NPCs. (a) Comparison of autophagy score between NPC/MSC samples and NPC samples; (b) Correlation analysis between oxidative stress score and autophagy score; (c) Venn diagram to obtain the autophagy-related DEGs; (d) Heat map of autophagy-related DEGs; (e) Correlation analysis between top 10 hub OSRDEGs and 13 autophagy-related DEGs; (f) Correlation analysis between GABARAP and CAT; (g) Correlation analysis between GABARAP and TXNRD1.

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