Gait abnormalities and inflammatory cytokines in an autologous nucleus pulposus model of radiculopathy

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 648-654

  Shamji, Mohammed F ^a,b   Allen, Kyle D ^a   So, Stephen ^a   Jing, Liufang ^a   Adams, Samuel B ^a,c   Schuh, Reinhard ^d   Huebner, Janet ^c   Kraus, Virginia B ^c   Friedman, Allan H ^c   Setton, Lori A ^a,c   Richardson, William J ^c  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Gait Analysis Laboratory   (Austria)

Author keywords

Gait; Herniation; Interleukins; Intervertebral disc; Nucleus pulposus; Pathophysiology; Radiculopathy

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; AUTACOID; AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEMYELINATION; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HYPERALGESIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL LAMENESS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD; DISEASE MODEL; FIBROCARTILAGE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIBROCARTILAGE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; RADICULOPATHY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 67649396585     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318197f013     Document Type: Article

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