Loading-Induced Heat-Shock Response in Bovine Intervertebral Disc Organ Culture.

Mechanical loading has been shown to affect cell viability and matrix maintenance in the intervertebral disc (IVD) but there is no investigation on how cells survive mechanical stress and whether the IVD cells perceive mechanical loading as stress and respond by expression of heat shock proteins. Th...

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Main Authors: Wai Hon Chooi, Samantha Chun Wai Chan, Benjamin Gantenbein, Barbara Pui Chan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5006975?pdf=render