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SUBMITTER: Caldeira J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5599645 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Caldeira Joana J Santa Cátia C Osório Hugo H Molinos Maria M Manadas Bruno B Gonçalves Raquel R Barbosa Mário M
Scientific reports 20170914 1
Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is often the cause of low back pain. Degeneration occurs with age and is accompanied by extracellular matrix (ECM) depletion, culminating in nucleus pulpous (NP) extrusion and IVD destruction. The changes that occur in the disc with age have been under investigation. However, a thorough study of ECM profiling is needed, to better understand IVD development and age-associated degeneration. As so, iTRAQ LC-MS/MS analysis of foetus, young and old bovine NPs, w ...[more]