Issue Special Issue 3/2014
Current Review on Disc Degeneration and Related Problems
Content (10 Articles)
The benefits of multi-disciplinary research on intervertebral disc degeneration
Hans-Joachim Wilke, Jocelyn Urban, Michelle Kümin
Disc degeneration-related clinical phenotypes
Michele C. Battié, Áron Lazáry, Jeremy Fairbank, Stephen Eisenstein, Chris Heywood, Marco Brayda-Bruno, Péter Pál Varga, Iain McCall
Advances in the diagnosis of degenerated lumbar discs and their possible clinical application
Marco Brayda-Bruno, Marta Tibiletti, Keita Ito, Jeremy Fairbank, Fabio Galbusera, Alberto Zerbi, Sally Roberts, Ellen Wachtel, Yulia Merkher, Sarit Sara Sivan
Ageing and degenerative changes of the intervertebral disc and their impact on spinal flexibility
Fabio Galbusera, Marc van Rijsbergen, Keita Ito, Jacques M. Huyghe, Marco Brayda-Bruno, Hans-Joachim Wilke
Mechanical loading of the intervertebral disc: from the macroscopic to the cellular level
Cornelia Neidlinger-Wilke, Fabio Galbusera, Harris Pratsinis, Eleni Mavrogonatou, Antje Mietsch, Dimitris Kletsas, Hans-Joachim Wilke
Biochemical composition and turnover of the extracellular matrix of the normal and degenerate intervertebral disc
Sarit Sara Sivan, Anthony J. Hayes, Ellen Wachtel, Bruce Caterson, Yulia Merkher, Alice Maroudas, Sharon Brown, Sally Roberts
Genetics of disc-related disorders: current findings and lessons from other complex diseases
Annu Näkki, Michele C. Battié, Jaakko Kaprio
Cell sources for nucleus pulposus regeneration
Nevenka Kregar Velikonja, Jill Urban, Mirjam Fröhlich, Cornelia Neidlinger-Wilke, Dimitris Kletsas, Urska Potocar, Sarah Turner, Sally Roberts
Disc cell therapies: critical issues
Marta Tibiletti, Nevenka Kregar Velikonja, Jill P. G. Urban, Jeremy C. T. Fairbank
Primary prevention of disc degeneration-related symptoms
Aron Lazary, Zsolt Szövérfi, Julia Szita, Annamária Somhegyi, Michelle Kümin, Peter Paul Varga