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SUBMITTER: Bowles RD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3156186 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bowles Robby D RD Gebhard Harry H HH Härtl Roger R Bonassar Lawrence J LJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110801 32
Lower back and neck pain are leading physical conditions for which patients see their doctors in the United States. The organ commonly implicated in this condition is the intervertebral disc (IVD), which frequently herniates, ruptures, or tears, often causing pain and limiting spinal mobility. To date, approaches for replacement of diseased IVD have been confined to purely mechanical devices designed to either eliminate or enable flexibility of the diseased motion segment. Here we present the ev ...[more]