The neuropathology of intervertebral dis
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Hidezo Yoshizawa; John P. O'Brien; W. Thomas Smith; Mary Trumper
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Article
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1980
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Thirty lower lumbar intervertebral discs (IVDs) removed for low-back pain were examined. There is a profuse non-myelinated axonal network and abundant free nerve terminals in the outer (lateral) half of the annulus fibrosus. The inner annulus and the nucleus pulposus did not contain nerve terminals.