The catabolic effect of TNFα on bovine nucleus pulposus intervertebral disc cells and the restraining role of glucosamine sulfate in the TNFα-mediated up-regulation of MMP-3

Inflammatory Cytokines Associated with Degenerative Disc Disease Control Aggrecanase-1 (ADAMTS-4) Expression in Nucleus Pulposus Cells through MAPK and NF-κB

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Preclinical Studies of Low Back Pain

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Low Back Pain

(2012) Susan M. Miller   PRIMARY CARE

The Effect of Glucosamine Sulfate on the Proliferative Potential and Glycosaminoglycan Synthesis of Nucleus Pulposus Intervertebral Disc Cells

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Glucocorticoids and Tumor Necrosis Factor α Increase Oxidative Stress and Suppress Wnt Protein Signaling in Osteoblasts

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Differential response of nucleus pulposus intervertebral disc cells to high salt, sorbitol, and urea

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The effect of triethylene glycol dimethacrylate on p53-dependent G2 arrest in human gingival fibroblasts

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Effect of varying osmotic conditions on the response of bovine nucleus pulposus cells to growth factors and the activation of the ERK and Akt pathways

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The Rising Prevalence of Chronic Low Back Pain

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High osmolality activates the G1 and G2 cell cycle checkpoints and affects the DNA integrity of nucleus pulposus intervertebral disc cells triggering an enhanced DNA repair response

(2009) Eleni Mavrogonatou et al.   DNA REPAIR

Differential down-regulation of COX-2 and MMP-13 in human skin fibroblasts by glucosamine-hydrochloride

(2009) Hua Hong et al.   JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGICAL SCIENCE

TNF-α Induces MMP2 Gelatinase Activity and MT1-MMP Expression in an In Vitro Model of Nucleus Pulposus Tissue Degeneration

(2009) Cheryle A. Séguin et al.   SPINE

Regulation of catabolic gene expression in normal and degenerate human intervertebral disc cells: implications for the pathogenesis of intervertebral disc degeneration

(2009) S Jane Millward-Sadler et al.   ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY

Chondroprotective effects of glucosamine involving the p38 MAPK and Akt signaling pathways

(2008) Yi-Cheng Lin et al.   RHEUMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Disease-modifying effects of Glucosamine HCl involving regulation of metalloproteinases and chemokines activated by interleukin-1β in human primary synovial fibroblasts

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