{"title":"Effects of Melatonin upon Vascularity of Cartilage End Plate of Intervertebral Disc","authors":"Yigit Uyanıkgil, E. O. Çetin, M. Turgut","doi":"10.4172/2165-7939.1000E123","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Anatomically, intervertebral disc (IVD) consists of three part; nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and cartilage end plate (CEP) at the cranial and caudal vertebral interface of the disc. In both animals and humans, the IVD consists largely of extracellular matrix with a low cell density. In many respects, that degeneration and age- related changes are characterised by biochemical and structural changes components of the IVD.","PeriodicalId":89593,"journal":{"name":"Journal of spine","volume":"2016 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2165-7939.1000E123","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of spine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2165-7939.1000E123","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Anatomically, intervertebral disc (IVD) consists of three part; nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and cartilage end plate (CEP) at the cranial and caudal vertebral interface of the disc. In both animals and humans, the IVD consists largely of extracellular matrix with a low cell density. In many respects, that degeneration and age- related changes are characterised by biochemical and structural changes components of the IVD.