Chondrocyte‐like nested cells in the aged intervertebral disc are late‐stage nucleus pulposus cells

Formation of the sacrum requires down-regulation of sonic hedgehog signaling in the sacral intervertebral discs

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Understanding Nucleus Pulposus Cell Phenotype: A Prerequisite for Stem Cell Based Therapies to Treat Intervertebral Disc Degeneration

(2015) Hyowon Choi et al.   Current Stem Cell Research & Therapy

Wnt Signaling Activates Shh Signaling in Early Postnatal Intervertebral Discs, and Re-Activates Shh Signaling in Old Discs in the Mouse

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Generation of knock-in mice that express nuclear enhanced green fluorescent protein and tamoxifen-inducible Cre recombinase in the notochord fromFoxa2andTloci

(2013) Yu Imuta et al.   GENESIS

Role of cytokines in intervertebral disc degeneration: pain and disc content

(2013) Makarand V. Risbud et al.   Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Sonic Hedgehog Maintains Cellular and Neurochemical Homeostasis in the Adult Nigrostriatal Circuit

(2012) Luis E. Gonzalez-Reyes et al.   NEURON

Shh Signaling from the Nucleus Pulposus Is Required for the Postnatal Growth and Differentiation of the Mouse Intervertebral Disc

(2012) Chitra Lekha Dahia et al.   PLoS One

Immunohistochemical identification of notochordal markers in cells in the aging human lumbar intervertebral disc

(2010) Christoph Weiler et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Intercellular Signaling Pathways Active During Intervertebral Disc Growth, Differentiation, and Aging

(2009) Chitra Lekha Dahia et al.   SPINE

Identification of nucleus pulposus precursor cells and notochordal remnants in the mouse: Implications for disk degeneration and chordoma formation

(2008) Kyung-Suk Choi et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

A CK19CreERTknockin mouse line allows for conditional DNA recombination in epithelial cells in multiple endodermal organs

(2008) Anna L. Means et al.   GENESIS