Intervertebral Disc
Calcification of the intervertebral disc and ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament in children
... ) and elevated ESR (69 mm/h, normal range: 0 to 20 mm/h) and CRP (11.80 mg/L, normal range: 0 to 5 mg/L). Radiograph and CT showed calcification of intervertebral disc at C2/3 and C3/4 levels, accompanied ...
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A Dose–response relationship between severity of disc degeneration and intervertebral disc height in the lumbosacral spine
... 4 disc degeneration, respectively. Such a small magnitude of disc narrowing is unlikely to be qualitatively discernible to assessors for distinguishing an increasing severity of disc ...in ...
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Action of fibroblast growth factor 2 on the intervertebral disc
... spine disc cells and to elucidate the complex biochemical pathways utilized by FGF2 in bovine intervertebral disc (IVD) cells in an attempt to further understand the pathophysiologic processes ...
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Original Article The establishment of an adjacent intervertebral disc egeneration model in New Zealand white rabbits undergoing lumbar fixation and fusion for intervertebral disc degeneration
... Intervertebral disc excision wi- th interbody fixation and fu- sion has become the mainst- ream treatment for spinal dis- ...tervertebral disc pain have to face a series of problems ca- used by the ...
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The biology behind the human intervertebral disc and its endplates
... The two different parts of the IVD — the AF and the NP arise on two separate developmental pathways. At approximately 30 days human foetal gestation cells of the sclerotome migrate medially from pairs of paraxial somites ...
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Application of transiliac approach to intervertebral endoscopic discectomy in L5/S1 intervertebral disc herniation
... Lumbar intervertebral disc herniation is a common dis- ease of spine surgery with a high incidence ...lumbar disc herniation treated by YESS technology, and the patients were followed up for more ...
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Expression of semaphorin 3A and its receptors in the human intervertebral disc: potential role in regulating neural ingrowth in the degenerate intervertebral disc
... Introduction: Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is considered a major underlying factor in the pathogenesis of chronic low back ...healthy disc, thus maintaining its aneural ...
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Prevalence of radiographic detectable intervertebral disc calcifications in Dachshunds surgically treated for disc extrusion
... the disc is neither degenerated nor calci- ...the intervertebral disc calcifications ...12 intervertebral discs in the Dachs- hunds are expected to be calcified according to the histo- ...
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Quantitative Molecular MRI of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
... Degeneration of the intervertebral disc (IVD) is the most common cause of back-related disability among North American adults. Low-back-pain and associated disability costs the United States more than 100 ...
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Stem cell horizons in intervertebral disc degeneration
... Abstract: Intervertebral disc degeneration remains a pervasive and intractable disease arising from a combination of aging and stress on the back and ...the intervertebral disc, and the diffi ...
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Disability in patients with prolapsed intervertebral disc in lumbar region
... root. Disc prolapses are often larger than the previous variety and may cause a greater degree of nerve ...as disc ligaments, bones, muscles & posterior facet joints of vertebral column, Nygaard, ...the ...
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Bovine explant model of degeneration of the intervertebral disc
... the intervertebral disc associated with back ...of disc degen- eration and would be suitable for testing the new genera- tion of injectable therapies for treating degenerate discs in ...
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Biologic Treatment of Mild and Moderate Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
... and disc height into canine, porcine and rabbit models ...degenerated intervertebral disc re- sulted in deceleration of disc height loss and increase in T2-weighted signal inten- ...and ...
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Intervertebral disc cells as competent phagocytes in vitro: implications for cell death in disc degeneration
... adult intervertebral disc has little or no direct vasculature supplying it, particularly the central nucleus pulposus (NP) [13], where cell death is reported to be most common ...the intervertebral ...
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The biological basis of degenerative disc disease: proteomic and biomechanical analysis of the canine intervertebral disc
... canine intervertebral disc NP reveals a cobweb appearance, demonstrating intense staining for all proteins located in the areas tightly between the ...
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Degeneration Affects the Structural and Tissue Mechanics of the Intervertebral Disc
... The intervertebral disc is comprised of mechanically and structurally unique substructures including the annulus fibrosus and the nucleus pulposus, which function together to support and absorb the large ...
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Intervertebral disc disease in Dachshunds radiographically screened for intervertebral disc calcifications
... Our results support radiography as an effective screening tool for IDC and also by implication as a tool to diminish incidence of IDD in Dachshunds. Our results of a high positive association between IDC and IDD are in ...
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Hyaluronan: its potential application in intervertebral disc regeneration
... in intervertebral disc ...of disc degeneration and summarises current evidence relating to the role of HA in cell phenotype maintenance, differentiation of chondrocytes, intervertebral ...
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Normalized intervertebral disc MRI signal as a biomarker of pain
... the intervertebral disc using descriptive statistics of histograms, weighted centers and volume ratios between the nucleus pulposus and the whole in- tervertebral disc ...the intervertebral ...
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Lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration and related factors in Korean firefighters
... lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration and whether the association differs between field and administrative (non-field) ...lumbar intervertebral disc ...lumbar intervertebral ...
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