Possible key role of immune system in Schmorl's nodes

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 552-554

  Zhang, Ning ^a   Li, Fang Cai ^a   Huang, Yi Jiang ^a   Teng, Chong ^a   Chen, Wei Shan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 7; LYMPHOTOXIN; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; RECOMBINANT INTERFERON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE ATROPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOLYSIS; SCHMORL NODE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINE; T LYMPHOCYTE; VASCULAR TISSUE;

ANIMALS; BACK PAIN; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINE;

EID: 77649273311     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.09.044     Document Type: Article

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