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SUBMITTER: Zhang TW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7000407 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Experimental & molecular medicine 20200127 1
There is one circadian clock in the central nervous system and another in the peripheral organs, and the latter is driven by an autoregulatory molecular clock composed of several core clock genes. The height, water content, osmotic pressure and mechanical characteristics of intervertebral discs (IVDs) have been demonstrated to exhibit a circadian rhythm (CR). Recently, a molecular clock has been shown to exist in IVDs, abolition of which can lead to stress in nucleus pulposus cells (NPCs), contr ...[more]