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Clinical trialNCT01771471TerminatedPhase 2Interventional

A Study Comparing the Safety and Effectiveness of Cartilage Cell Injected Into the Lumbar Disc as Compared to a Placebo

SponsorISTO Technologies, Inc.Enrollment44Degenerative Disc Disease
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

This is a clinical study to collect safety and preliminary efficiency information on the use of NuQu chondrocytes (cartilage cells) delivered to the center of a lumbar spinal disc to treat low back pain.
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Investigators

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Sites

10 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Alabama Orthopedic and Spine Center

    Birmingham, Alabama, United States

  • California Spine Diagnostics

    San Francisco, California, United States

  • the Spine Institute, Center for Spinal Restoration

    Santa Monica, California, United States

  • Ortho Georgia

    Macon, Georgia, United States

  • Tufts University School of Medicine

    Newton, Massachusetts, United States

  • Weill Cornell Medical College

    New York, New York, United States

  • Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates

    Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

  • the Neurospine Institute

    Eugene, Oregon, United States

  • Spine Team Texas

    Southlake, Texas, United States

  • Spinal Reseach Foundation

    Reston, Virginia, United States

Site investigator names are published by ClinicalTrials.gov only while a study recruits, so completed studies list sites without them.

Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

NuQu
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
30 Nov 2012
Primary completion
30 Sept 2020
Completion
30 Sept 2020
Last update posted
31 Aug 2017
Registered enrollment
44
Registry id
NCT01771471
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.