Disc4All Publications

  • Region specific response of the intervertebral disc cells to complex dynamic loading (2013) An organ culture study using a bi-axial loading bioreactor

    Chan SC, Walser J, Käppeli P, Shamsollahi M, Ferguson SJ, Gantenbein-Ritter B

    PLoS ONE 2013; 8:e72489

  • Inflammatory Mediators in Intervertebral Disk Degeneration and Discogenic Pain

    Wuertz, K. & Haglund, L

    Glob. Spine J. 3, 175–184

  • The Cytokine and chemokine expression profile of nucleus pulposus cells: implications for degeneration and regeneration of the Intervertebral disc

    Phillips KLE, Chiverton N, Michael ALR, Cole AA, Breakwell LM, Haddock G, Bunning RAD, Cross AK, Le Maitre CL

    Arthritis Research and Therapy. 15: R213

  • Body mass index is associated with lumbar disc degeneration in young Finnish males: subsample of Northern Finland birth cohort study 1986.

    Takatalo, J. et al.

    BMC Musculoskelet. Disord. 14, 87

  • Novel genetic variants associated with lumbar disc degeneration in northern Europeans: A meta-analysis of 4600 subjects

    Williams, F. M. K. et al.

    Ann. Rheum. Dis. 72, 1141–1148