Propionibacterium acnes infected intervertebral discs cause vertebral bone marrow lesions consistent with Modic changes

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1447-1455

  Dudli, Stefan ^a   Liebenberg, Ellen ^a   Magnitsky, Sergey ^b   Miller, Steve ^b   Demir Deviren, Sibel ^a   Lotz, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bone marrow; disc degeneration; low back pain; Modic changes; Propionibacterium acnes

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BONE ATROPHY; BONE EROSION; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISKITIS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR SPINE; MODIC TYPE I CHANGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRABECULAR BONE; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84983681809     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: 1554527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.23265     Document Type: Article

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