Vertebral endplate and disc changes in the aging sand rat lumbar spine: Cross-sectional analyses of a large male and female population

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 2529-2536

  Gruber, Helen E ^a   Gordon, Brian ^b   Williams, Cliff ^a   Norton, H James ^a   Hanley, Edward N ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone densitometry; Bone mineral density; Disc degeneration; Endplate sclerosis; Lumbar spine; Psammomys obesus; Sand rat

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITOMETRY; BONE DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; GENDER; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CALCINOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; SCLEROSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 35848952486     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318158cd69     Document Type: Article

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