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• Spine · Dec 2015

  Predicting Short-term Morbidity in Patients Undergoing Posterior Spinal Fusion for Neuromuscular Scoliosis.

  A retrospective cohort study. ⋯ 3.

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• Spine · Dec 2015

  Observational Study

  Lumbar Radiculopathy Confounded: Total Knee Arthroplasty Diminishes the Patellar Tendon Reflex.

  Patellar tendon reflexes were elicited among patients who had had a unilateral total knee replacement, those planned for unilateral total knee replacement, and a cohort of controlled patients. Patellar tendon reflex (PTR) response was measured with surface electromyography. ⋯ 3.

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• Spine · Dec 2015

  Leukocytes Enhance Inflammatory and Catabolic Degenerative Changes in the Intervertebral Disc After Endplate Fracture In Vitro Without Infiltrating the Disc.

  An established rabbit intervertebral disc (IVD)/endplate explant fracture model was extended with physiologic post-traumatic dynamic loading (PTDL) and coculturing of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). ⋯ N/A.

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• Spine · Dec 2015

  Anti-apoptotic effect of highly secreted GMCSF from neuronal cell-specific GMCSF over-expressing neural stem cells in spinal cord injury model.

  Neuronal cell-specific gene expression system and neural stem cells (NSCs) were combined for treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI). ⋯ N/A.

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• Spine · Dec 2015

  Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Protects Against Spinal Cord Injury by Inhibiting Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Rats.

  Experimental animal study of treatment of SCI. ⋯ N/A.

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