Effects of Advanced Age on the Morphometry and Degenerative State of the Cervical Spine in a Rat Model

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1326-1336

  Laing, Andrew C ^a   Cox, Riley ^b   Tetzlaff, Wolfram ^c,d   Oxland, Thomas ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ON REPAIR DISCOVERIES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age; Cervical; Degeneration; Morphometry; Rat; Spine

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THICKNESS; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

RATTUS;

EID: 79960539598     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21436     Document Type: Article

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