Nucleus pulposus cells were isolated from 8-week-old Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats. Initially, the soft tissue surrounding the tail was carefully dissected to expose the intervertebral disc. The nucleus ...

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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 ...

Spinal disorders, particularly those related to intervertebral ... The prosthetic disc nucleus provides a promising solution for patients suffering from degenerative disc disease, offering an ...

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

A posterior annular tear is a painful condition characterized by tear or rupture in the annulus fibrosus (outer layer of an intervertebral ... (nucleus pulposus) may leak out from the disc's ...

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 ...

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.

(b) Decompression effect: It induces water loss, contraction, degeneration, and necrosis of nucleus pulposus tissue, reducing intradiscal pressure ... images of the lumbar spine and is unable to ...

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