Microfibrils, elastin fibres and collagen fibres in the human intervertebral disc and bovine tail disc

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 210, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 460-471

  Yu, Jing ^a   Tirlapur, Uday ^a   Fairbank, Jeremy ^b   Handford, Penny ^c   Roberts, Sally ^d   Winlove, Peter C ^e   Cui, Zhanfeng ^a   Urban, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elastin fibres; Fibrillin 1; Intervertebral disks; Microfibrils

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; FIBRILLIN 1; GLYCOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; COW; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TAIL;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHILD; ELASTIN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICROFIBRILS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE FIBERS; TAIL;

BOVINAE;

EID: 34147133349     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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