THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC
Degeneration of the intervertebral disc
... The intervertebral disc is a cartilaginous structure that resembles articular cartilage in its biochemistry, but morphologically it is clearly ...of disc degeneration with back ...
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The effects of dynamic loading on the intervertebral disc
... the intervertebral disc ...of disc degeneration as well as quantifying a physiological loading condition for the study of disc degeneration biological ...
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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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The Method Exploration for Measuring the Strain of the Intervertebral Disc
... the Intervertebral Disc Strain Measurement Model ...about intervertebral disc, we can easily find out that the transverse section of the disc is an axialsymmetrypolygonwith a smooth ...
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Degeneration Affects the Structural and Tissue Mechanics of the Intervertebral Disc
... 3.3 Results The lamellar architecture for the annulus fibrosus and the trabeculae within the vertebral bodies were clearly observed in the magnetic resonance images (Figure 3-7). Strain analysis was not performed in the ...
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Piezoelectricity in the intervertebral disc
... 2.4. Preliminary testing of piezoelectricity in the physiological state To determine the piezoelectric properties of physiological IVD tissue, AF and whole-disc samples were tested using the piezome- ter, similar ...
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RANK/RANKL/OPG system in the intervertebral disc.
... Abbreviations AF: Anulus fibrosus; ANOVA: Analysis of variance; CEP: Cartilaginous endplate; FBS: Fetal bovine serum; Fisher PLSD test: Fisher protected least significant difference test; HE: Hematoxylin and eosin; HRP: ...
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RANK/RANKL/OPG system in the intervertebral disc
... Abbreviations AF: Anulus fibrosus; ANOVA: Analysis of variance; CEP: Cartilaginous endplate; FBS: Fetal bovine serum; Fisher PLSD test: Fisher protected least significant difference test; HE: Hematoxylin and eosin; HRP: ...
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Action of fibroblast growth factor 2 on the intervertebral disc
... Based on our DMMB results, treatment with FGF2 in alginate culture for 21 days dose-dependently decreased the accumu- lation of PG in NP cells. This reduction could be due to either increased PG degradation or decreased ...
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A Review of the Degenerative Intervertebral Disc Disease
... the intervertebral disc tissue starts sooner than that of other muscular and skeletal tissues and is in many cases asymptomatic ...of intervertebral disc may be present as early as in the ...
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Quantitative Molecular MRI of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
... Supervisor: Ravinder Reddy 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 ...
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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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Disc in flames: Roles of TNF-α and IL-1β in intervertebral disc degeneration.
... The intervertebral disc is an important mechanical structure that allows range of motion of the spinal ...the intervertebral disc – incited by aging, traumatic insult, genetic predisposition, ...
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Axial T2 mapping in intervertebral discs: a new technique for assessment of intervertebral disc degeneration
... larger disc area and has shown to be a useful grading instrument, especially for early stages of disc degeneration ...in disc degeneration in all areas of the intervertebral ...
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Biologic Treatment of Mild and Moderate Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
... moderate disc degeneration, where a potential for regeneration still ...the intervertebral disc to enhance matrix synthesis, delay degener- ation or impede ...degenerated disc dis- ease, when ...
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Normalized intervertebral disc MRI signal as a biomarker of pain
... the intervertebral disc were found to be sensitive to spinal deformities including adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and spondylolisthesis and their severities ...bral disc, which represents the loss ...
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The biology behind the human intervertebral disc and its endplates
... The intervertebral discs (IVDs) are roughly cylindrical, fibrocartilaginous, articula- ting structures connecting the vertebral bodies, and allowing movement in the otherwise rigid anterior portion of the ...
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Intervertebral disc disease in Dachshunds radiographically screened for intervertebral disc calcifications
... IDC grade significantly explained three of the four clinical signs indicative of IDD (reluctance to jump onto a sofa, back or neck pain, pain attack for unknown reason) (Table 4).. The e[r] ...
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Intervertebral Disc (IVD) Prostheses
... artificial disc replacement with the ProDisc-C device over one ...of disc replacement (n=25) to the “gold standard” anterior cervical discectomy and fusion ...
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INTERVERTEBRAL DISC PATHOLOGY AND AYURVEDA .......
... tebral disc undergoes changes that include loss of the amount of proteoglycans and change in the specific type of proteogly- can, with resultant loss of water ...the disc to transfer loads from one vertebra ...
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