Repetitive tensile stress to rat caudal vertebrae inducing cartilage formation in the spinal ligaments: A possible role of mechanical stress in the development of ossification of the spinal ligaments

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 234-242

  Tsukamoto, Nobuaki ^b   Maeda, Takeshi ^a   Miura, Hiromasa ^b   Jingushi, Seiya ^b   Hosokawa, Akira ^b   Harimaya, Katsumi ^b   Higaki, Hidehiko ^b   Kurata, Kousaku ^b   Iwamoto, Yukihide ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Caudal vertebrae; Ectopic cartilaginous formation; Mechanical stress; Ossification of the spinal ligament; Rat; Tensile loading

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100; SOX-9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RESPONSE VARIABLE; TENSILE STRENGTH; VERTEBRA; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; TAIL; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENTS; MALE; OSSIFICATION OF POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; S100 PROTEINS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TAIL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33749048051     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2006.5.3.234     Document Type: Article

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