Ultrastructural study of the short-term
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Toru Suguro; Theodore R. Oegema Jr.; David S. Bradford
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Article
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1986
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The initial effects of chymopapain, a chemonucleolytic agent, on the intervertebral disc of dogs were studied by light and electron microscopic techniques. Fragments of nucleus pulposus and annulus fibrosis were incubated with chymopapain up to 24 h in vitro. Proteoglycans and matrix proteins were r