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    Anulus fibrosus tension inhibits degenerative structural changes in lamellar collagen

    Mechanical stress is one of the risk factors believed to influence intervertebral disc degeneration. Animal models have shown that certain regimes of compressive loading can induce a cascade of biological effe...

    Jeffrey C. Lotz, Tamer Hadi, Clayton Bratton, Karen M. Reiser in European Spine Journal (2008)