Effects of low oxygen concentrations and
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Hirokazu Ishihara; Jill P. G. Urban
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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## Abstract The intervertebral disc is the largest asvacular structure in the body; consequently, there are steep gradients in O~2~ concentration, with PO~2~ falling to as low as 1% O~2~ in the centre of the disc. We investigated the effect of O~2~ concentration on the rates of O~2~ consumption, la