Potential prevention: Orally administered statins may retard the pathologic process of disc degeneration

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-127

  Shi, Sheng ^a   Wang, Ce ^a   Yuan, Wen ^a   Wang, Xinwei ^a   Zhou, Xuhui ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; SIMVASTATIN;

ARTICLE; BONE REGENERATION; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PATHOGENESIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION;

EID: 78650171047     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.08.050     Document Type: Article

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