2004 Young investigator award winner: Vertebral endplate marrow contact channel occlusions and intervertebral disc degeneration

Spine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 167-173

  Benneker, Lorin M ^a,b   Heini, Paul F ^b   Alini, Mauro ^a   Anderson, Suzanne E ^b   Ito, Keita ^a,c  

^a AO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Degeneration; Intervertebral disc; Nutrition; Spine; Vertebral endplate

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BONE MATRIX; CALCIFICATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARAMETER; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TISSUE LEVEL; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRA ENDPLATE OPENING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARDS AND PRIZES; BONE MARROW; CADAVER; CALCINOSIS; CAPILLARIES; COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 14844303678     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000150833.93248.09     Document Type: Article

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