Smoking and intervertebral disc degeneration

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 537-539

  Fogelholm, R R ^a   Alho, A V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ORTON Invalid Foundation   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0035033194     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.2000.1253     Document Type: Article

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