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Sensitivity of notochordal disc cells to mechanical loading: an experimental animal study.
European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society - 1 Jan 2010
Guehring Thorsten, Nerlich Andreas, Kroeber Markus, Richter Wiltrud, Omlor Georg W
Abstract excerpt
The immature disc nucleus pulposus (NP) consists of notochordal cells (NCs). With maturation NCs disappear in humans, to be replaced by chondrocyte-like mature NP cells (MNPCs); this change in cell phenotype coincidences with early signs of disc degeneration. The reasons for NC disappearance are...
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