Nanobacteria and intervertebral disc degeneration [7]

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 997-998

  Eskandary, Hossein ^a   Saba, Mohammad ^b   Yazdi, Touraj ^b,c  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Afzal Research Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

ARTERY OCCLUSION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; EDEMA; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; ISCHEMIA; LETTER; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MICROBIOLOGY; MYELITIS; PATHOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CELL SIZE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MYELITIS;

EID: 27244447445     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.11.016     Document Type: Letter

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