Abstract: The present application discloses method of treating spinal cord injury, or a condition associated with or caused by spinal cord injury comprising regenerating nerve or attenuating degeneration of nerve at a site of nerve injury comprising administering at or an area near an injured nerve, a nerve regenerating or nerve degeneration attenuating amount of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) lipid phosphatase inhibiting peptide.

Abstract: A method for preventing and treating back pain including discogenic back pain, which includes administering a mixed cell composition containing mammalian connective tissue cells and mammalian cells expressing TGF-?1 into the intervertebral disc defect site.

Abstract: A method for restoring a damaged or degenerating intervertebral disc, which includes administering a mixed cell composition containing mammalian connective tissue cells and mammalian cells expressing TGF-?1 into the intervertebral disc defect site.

Abstract: The present application is directed to a method of treating osteoarthritis, which includes obtaining a member of a transforming growth factor superfamily of proteins; obtaining a population of cultured mammalian cells that may contain vector encoding a gene, or a population of cultured connective tissue cells that do not contain any vector encoding a gene; and then transferring the protein and the connective tissue cells into an arthritic joint space of a mammalian host, such that the activity of the combination within the joint space results in regenerating connective tissue.

Abstract: The present application is directed to a method of treating osteoarthritis, which includes obtaining a member of a transforming growth factor superfamily of proteins; obtaining a population of cultured mammalian cells that may contain vector encoding a gene, or a population of cultured connective tissue cells that do not contain any vector encoding a gene; and then transferring the protein and the connective tissue cells into an arthritic joint space of a mammalian host, such that the activity of the combination within the joint space results in regenerating connective tissue.

Abstract: The subject invention is directed to a mixed cell composition to generate a therapeutic protein at a target site by providing a first population of mammalian cells transfected or transduced with a gene that is sought to be expressed, and a second population of mammalian cells that have not been transfected or transduced with the gene, wherein endogenously existing forms of the second population of mammalian cells are decreased at the target site, and wherein generation of the therapeutic protein by the first population of mammalian cells at the target site stimulates the second population cells to induce a therapeutic effect.

Abstract: The subject invention is directed to a mixed cell composition to generate a therapeutic protein at a target site by providing a first population of mammalian cells transfected or transduced with a gene that is sought to be expressed, and a second population of mammalian cells that have not been transfected or transduced with the gene, wherein endogenously existing forms of the second population of mammalian cells are decreased at the target site, and wherein generation of the therapeutic protein by the first population of mammalian cells at the target site stimulates the second population cells to induce a therapeutic effect.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method for preventing or retarding degeneration of intervertebral disc at an intervertebral disc defect site, which includes injecting a mammalian connective tissue cell into the intervertebral disc defect site.

Abstract: The subject invention is directed to a composition comprising primed connective tissue cells and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier thereof.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method for preventing or retarding degeneration of intervertebral disc at an intervertebral disc defect site, which includes injecting a mammalian connective tissue cell into the intervertebral disc defect site.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method for preventing or retarding degeneration of intervertebral disc at an intervertebral disc defect site, which includes injecting a mammalian connective tissue cell into the intervertebral disc defect site.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method for preventing or retarding degeneration of intervertebral disc at an intervertebral disc defect site, which includes injecting a mammalian connective tissue cell into the intervertebral disc defect site.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method of growing or proliferating nerve cells by contacting the cells with phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) lipid phosphatase inhibiting peptide.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method of growing or proliferating nerve cells by contacting the cells with phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) lipid phosphatase inhibiting peptide.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method for preventing or retarding degeneration of intervertebral disc at an intervertebral disc defect site, which includes injecting a mammalian connective tissue cell into the intervertebral disc defect site.

Abstract: The present application is directed to a method of treating osteoarthritis, which includes obtaining a member of a transforming growth factor superfamily of proteins; obtaining a population of cultured mammalian cells that may contain vector encoding a gene, or a population of cultured connective tissue cells that do not contain any vector encoding a gene; and then transferring the protein and the connective tissue cells into an arthritic joint space of a mammalian host, such that the activity of the combination within the joint space results in regenerating connective tissue.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method of growing or proliferating nerve cells by contacting the cells with phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) lipid phosphatase inhibiting peptide.

Abstract: The application discloses a method for making bone at a bone defect site for a person suffering from low bone mass which includes inserting a gene encoding a protein having bone regenerating function into a connective tissue cell operably linked to a promoter, and transplanting the mammalian cell into the bone defect site, and allowing the bone defect site to make the bone.

Abstract: The subject invention is directed to a mixed cell composition to generate a therapeutic protein at a target site by providing a first population of mammalian cells transfected or transduced with a gene that is sought to be expressed, and a second population of mammalian cells that have not been transfected or transduced with the gene, wherein endogenously existing forms of the second population of mammalian cells are decreased at the target site, and wherein generation of the therapeutic protein by the first population of mammalian cells at the target site stimulates the second population cells to induce a therapeutic effect.

Abstract: The subject invention is directed to a composition comprising primed connective tissue cells and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier thereof.