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Low back pain is a major cause of disability especially for people between 20 and 50 years of age. As a costly healthcare problem, it imposes a serious socio-economic burden. Current surgical therapies have considerable drawbacks and fail to replace the normal disc in facilitating spinal movements a...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens 
The aim of this transcription profiling study was to identify novel genes that could be used to distinguish bovine Nucleus pulposus (NP) cells from articular cartilage (AC) and annulus fibrosus (AF) cells and to further determine their expression in normal and degenerate human intervertebral disc (I...
ORGANISM(S): Bos taurus 
The presence of senescent cells in the aging/degenerating human disc is now well-recognized. Senescent cells are viable, cannot divide, remain metabolically active and accumulate within the disc over time. Molecular analysis of senescent cells in tissue, however, offers a special challenge since the...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens 
The objective of this study was to determine how TNF-a, an important proinflammatory cytokine, affects gene expression in the human annulus. Cells were grown in a 3D collagen construct for 14 days with TNF-a. mRNA was isolated and subjected to microarray. Fold changes in gene expression were determ...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens 
To mimic a degenerative insult, rat intervertebral discs were cultured in the presence of TNF-alpha, IL-1beta and serum limiting conditions. Gene expression analysis was performed using a microarray to identify differential gene expression between experimental and control groups. The discs were coll...
ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus 
Very little is known about how intervertebral disc (IVD) is formed or maintained. Members of the TGF-beta superfamily are secreted signaling proteins that regulate many aspects of development including cellular differentiation. We recently showed that deletion of Tgfbr2 in Col2a expressing tissue re...
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus 
Shared and compartment-specific processes in nucleus pulposus and annulus fibrosus during intervertebral disc degeneration
Low back pain is a major cause of disability especially for people between 20 and 50 years of age. As a costly healthcare problem, it imposes a serious socio-economic burden. Current surgical therapies have considerable drawbacks and fail to replace the normal disc in facilitating spinal movements a...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens 
2015-10-23 | GSE70362 | GEO
Very little is known about how intervertebral disc (IVD) is formed or maintained. Members of the TGF-ß superfamily are secreted signaling proteins that regulate many aspects of development including cellular differentiation. We recently showed that deletion of Tgfbr2 in Col2a expressing tissue resul...
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus 
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