Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared with published literature of changes seen in non-athletes—that is, normal population.

Degenerative ... disc disease is extremely rare. Intrigued by this fact and how it might apply to humans, researchers in Toronto, Canada, decided to conduct a gene expression study on ...

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, Jiangsu, China ...

Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Orthopedic Research Institute, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China ...

What is degenerative disc disease? All of us have a breakdown, or deterioration, of our joints as we age. This is also true of our spinal discs, which act as shock absorbers for our body’s back. More ...

This important Research Advance presents convincing evidence on the neuroprotective effects of reserpine in a well-established model of retinitis pigmentosa (P23H-1 ... the importance of considering ...

In the manuscript entitled "Sex-specific attenuation of photoreceptor degeneration by reserpine in a rhodopsin P23H rat model of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa" by Beom Song et al., the ...

and exhibited degenerative intervertebral disk changes at L4/L5, L5/S1, or both. Patients with nerve root compression from herniated disks were excluded. At 2 years, a small significant difference ...

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