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The Role of the Vertebral End Plate in Low Back Pain by Lotz, J. C., Fields, A. J., Liebenberg, E. C.

“…End plates serve as the interface between rigid vertebral bodies and pliant intervertebral disks. Because the lumbar spine carries significant forces and disks…”
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Inflammatory response of disc cells against Propionibacterium acnes depends on the presence of lumbar Modic changes by Dudli, Stefan, Miller, S., Demir-Deviren, S., Lotz, J. C.

“…Purpose Intervertebral disc with Propionibacterium acnes ( P. acnes ) is suggested to be an etiology of Modic type I changes in the adjacent bone marrow…”
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Structured three-dimensional co-culture of mesenchymal stem cells with chondrocytes promotes chondrogenic differentiation without hypertrophy by Cooke, M.E, Allon, A.A, Cheng, T, Kuo, A.C, Kim, H.T, Vail, T.P, Marcucio, R.S, Schneider, R.A, Lotz, J.C, Alliston, T

“…Summary Objective This study investigated a novel approach to induce chondrogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC). We hypothesized that…”
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Intervertebral Disc Cell Death Is Dependent on the Magnitude and Duration of Spinal Loading by Lotz, Jeffrey C, Chin, Jennie R

“…STUDY DESIGN.An in vivo study of the toxic consequences of static compressive stress on the intervertebral disc. OBJECTIVES.To determine whether disc cell…”
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Minimizing errors associated with calculating the location of the helical axis for spinal motions by Metzger, M.F, Faruk Senan, N.A, O’Reilly, O.M, Lotz, J.C

“…Abstract One of the more common comparative tools used to quantify the motion of the vertebral joint is the orientation and position of the (finite) helical…”
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Stress distributions within the proximal femur during gait and falls: implications for osteoporotic fracture by LOTZ, J. C, CHEAL, E. J, HAYES, W. C

“…The rates of fracture at sites with different relative amounts of cortical and trabecular bone (hip, spine, distal radius) have been used to make inferences…”
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Nutrient supply and nucleus pulposus cell function: effects of the transport properties of the cartilage endplate and potential implications for intradiscal biologic therapy by Wong, J., Sampson, S.L., Bell-Briones, H., Ouyang, A., Lazar, A.A., Lotz, J.C., Fields, A.J.

“…Intradiscal biologic therapy is a promising strategy for managing intervertebral disc degeneration. However, these therapies require a rich nutrient supply,…”
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Biaxial testing of human annulus fibrosus and its implications for a constitutive formulation by Bass, E C, Ashford, F A, Segal, M R, Lotz, J C

“…Internal pressure in the healthy human annulus fibrosus leads to multiaxial stress in vivo, yet uniaxial tests have been used exclusively to characterize its…”
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Inguinal Hernia-The Practicalities of TAPP Repair by Lotz, J.C.

“…In a previous paper in this Journal, the case for laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair by the transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) approach was made, in terms of…”
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Radial tensile properties of the lumbar annulus fibrosus are site and degeneration dependent by Fujita, Y, Duncan, N A, Lotz, J C

“…We conducted an in vitro study of the radial tensile properties of the annulus fibrosus. The stress-strain response was nonlinear, with a mean tangent modulus…”
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The use of quantitative computed tomography to estimate risk of fracture of the hip from falls by Lotz, J C, Hayes, W C

“…We conducted an in vitro investigation of the loads and energies needed to fracture the proximal part of the femur in twelve fresh cadavera under loading…”
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Effect of peripheral suture depth on strength of tendon repairs by Diao, E, Hariharan, J S, Soejima, O, Lotz, J C

“…The peripheral suture in flexor tendon repairs was originally introduced to "tidy up" the repair site and to improve gliding after core suture placement. More…”
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Fracture prediction for the proximal femur using finite element models: Part I--Linear analysis by Lotz, J C, Cheal, E J, Hayes, W C

“…Over 90 percent of the more than 250,000 hip fractures that occur annually in the United States are the result of falls from standing height. Despite this, the…”
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Anisotropic shear behavior of the annulus fibrosus: effect of harvest site and tissue prestrain by Fujita, Y., Wagner, D.R., Biviji, A.A., Duncan, N.A., Lotz, J.C.

“…We used a shear protocol to investigate the time-independent, anisotropic structural behavior of 30 cube and 56 sheet specimens of human annulus fibrosus from…”
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Carbonated apatite cement augmentation of pedicle screw fixation in the lumbar Spine by LOTZ, J. C, HU, S. S, CHIU, D. F. M, YU, M, COLLIOU, O, POSER, R. D

“…Biomechanical testing with human cadaveric lumbar vertebral bodies was used to determine the utility of an injectable carbonated apatite cancellous bone cement…”
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Mechanobiology of the intervertebral disc by Lotz, J C, Hsieh, A H, Walsh, A L, Palmer, E I, Chin, J R

“…Intervertebral disc degeneration has been linked in humans to extreme spinal loading regimens. However, mechanisms by which spinal force influences disc…”
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Laparoscopic Hernia Repair-The Best Option ? by Wall, M.L., Cherian, Th, Lotz, J.C.

“…For 100 years the Bassini-type repair for inguinal hernia was the standard method. The Lichtenstein "tension free" mesh repair replaced it on the grounds of…”
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Acute biomechanical and histological effects of intradiscal electrothermal therapy on human lumbar discs by KLEINSTUECK, Frank S, DIEDERICH, Chris J, NAU, William H, PUTTLITZ, Christian M, SMITH, Jason A, BRADFORD, David S, LOTZ, Jeffrey C

“…Human cadaver lumbar spines were used to assess the acute effects of intradiscal electrothermal therapy in vitro. To determine whether intradiscal…”
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Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Regenerative Medicine: Transforming Biotechnologies for Innovating Patient Care by Giannobile, W.V., Chai, Y., Chen, Y., Healy, K.E., Klein, O., Lane, N., Longaker, M.T., Lotz, J.C., Mooney, D.J., Sfeir, C.S., Urata, M., Wagner, W.R., Wu, B.M., Kohn, D.H.

“…The 2 DOCTRC resource centers are 1) the Center for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Tissue and Organ Regeneration (C-DOCTOR), which represents a group of…”
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A special theory of biphasic mixtures and experimental results for human annulus fibrosus tested in confined compression by Klisch, S M, Lotz, J C

“…A finite deformation mixture theory is used to quantify the mechanical properties of the annulus fibrosus using experimental data obtained from a confined…”
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