Factors involved in the nutrition of the human lumbar intervertebral disc: cellularity and diffusion of glucose in vitro.
Post-mortem specimens of the human lumbar (L4-L5) intervertebral disc have been studied histologically and physico-chemically. Blood vessels were found only at the margin of the anulus fibrosus and in the vertebral marrow spaces. Contact between disc tissue and marrow spaces occupied about 10% of th...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1975
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