"Nucleus Pulposus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Fibrocartilage inner core of the intervertebral disc. Prolapsed or bulged nucleus pulposus leads to INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT while proliferation of cells in the nucleus pulposus is associated with INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION.
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D000070614
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.165.308.410.500 A02.835.232.834.432.500 A10.165.382.350.050.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Nucleus Pulposus" by people in Profiles.
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Ethanol-mediated compaction and cross-linking enhance mechanical properties and degradation resistance while maintaining cytocompatibility of a nucleus pulposus scaffold. J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater. 2019 11; 107(8):2488-2499.
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Decellularization and characterization of a whole intervertebral disk xenograft scaffold. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2018 09; 106(9):2412-2423.
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Comparison of Oxygen Consumption Rates of Nondegenerate and Degenerate Human Intervertebral Disc Cells. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2018 Jan 15; 43(2):E60-E67.
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Biomimetic nucleus pulposus scaffold created from bovine caudal intervertebral disc tissue utilizing an optimal decellularization procedure. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2016 12; 104(12):3093-3106.