Environmentally stressed human nucleus pulposus cells trigger the onset of discogenic low back pain
Wensen Jiang, Juliane D. Glaeser, Giselle Kaneda, Julia Sheyn, Jacob T. Wechsler, Stephen R. Stephan, Khosrowdad Salehi, Julie Lynn Chan, Wafa Tawackoli, Pablo Avalos, Christopher N. Johnson, Chloe M. Castaneda, Linda E.A. Kanim, Teerachat Tanasansomboon, Joshua E. Burda, , Dmitriy Sheyn
The paper identifies a stress-induced subtype of nucleus pulposus cells in degenerating intervertebral discs that trigger discogenic low back pain.
bioRxiv · Mar 2, 2023 · PreprintMolecular Biology