Current strategies for treatment of intervertebral disc degeneration: substitution and regeneration possibilities

S van Uden, J Silva-Correia, JM Oliveira… - Biomaterials …, 2017 - spj.science.org
Background Intervertebral disc degeneration has an annual worldwide socioeconomic
impact masked as low back pain of over 70 billion euros. This disease has a high …

Deep learning-based high-accuracy quantitation for lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration from MRI

HD Zheng, YL Sun, DW Kong, MC Yin, J Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To help doctors and patients evaluate lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD)
accurately and efficiently, we propose a segmentation network and a quantitation method for …

The association between pain scores and disc height change following discectomy surgery in lumbar disc herniation patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

X Chen, HS Sandhu, J Vargas Castillo… - European Spine …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose To evaluate the impact of discectomy on disc height (DH) in lumbar disc herniation
(LDH) patients following discectomy surgery and address the association of DH change with …

Local delivery of senolytic drug inhibits intervertebral disc degeneration and restores intervertebral disc structure

S Lim, SB An, M Jung, HP Joshi… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration (IVDD) is a leading cause of chronic low back pain.
There is a strong clinical demand for more effective treatments for IVDD as conventional …

Construction of biomimetic artificial intervertebral disc scaffold via 3D printing and electrospinning

M Zhu, J Tan, L Liu, J Tian, L Li, B Luo, C Zhou… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is a clinically disease that seriously endangers
people's health. Tissue engineering provides a promising method to repair and regenerate …

The Pfirrmann classification of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration: an independent inter-and intra-observer agreement assessment

J Urrutia, P Besa, M Campos, P Cikutovic… - European Spine …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose Grading inter-vertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is important in the evaluation of
many degenerative conditions, including patients with low back pain. Magnetic resonance …

Long non-coding HCG18 promotes intervertebral disc degeneration by sponging miR-146a-5p and regulating TRAF6 expression

Y Xi, T Jiang, W Wang, J Yu, Y Wang, X Wu, Y He - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is associated with the deterioration of nucleus
pulposus (NP) cells due to hypertrophic differentiation and calcification. Emerging studies …

LncRNA OIP5-AS1 accelerates intervertebral disc degeneration by targeting miR-25-3p

Z Che, J Xueqin, Z Zhang - Bioengineered, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
It is obvious that epigenetic processes influence the evolution of intervertebral disc
degeneration (IDD). However, its molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. Long …

Direct automated quantitative measurement of spine by cascade amplifier regression network with manifold regularization

S Pang, Z Su, S Leung, IB Nachum, B Chen… - Medical image …, 2019 - Elsevier
Automated quantitative measurement of the spine (ie, multiple indices estimation of heights,
widths, areas, and so on for the vertebral body and disc) plays a significant role in clinical …

Intervertebral disc classification by its degree of degeneration from T2-weighted magnetic resonance images

I Castro-Mateos, R Hua, JM Pozo, A Lazary… - European Spine …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose The primary goal of this article is to achieve an automatic and objective method to
compute the Pfirrmann's degeneration grade of intervertebral discs (IVD) from MRI. This …