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Type 2 diabetes alters the behavior of discs in the vertebral column, making them stiffer, and also causes the discs to change shape earlier than normal. As a result, the disc's ability to ...

The vertebral column and its high evolutionary potential is considered to be of central importance for the evolution of vertebrates, which is why the constancy is both puzzling and important.

The lumbosacral joint, the connection between the vertebral column and the hips, has to be very flexible in fast running mammals with an agile lifestyle, and any mutations which reduce this ...

Requires vertebral column for strength and muscle attachment for lateral undulations of swimming On land, gravity pulls vertebrate body down and puts weight on ventral surface. In fishes, the spine ...

Band pair counts are related to vertebral size, rather than to time or age, and counts vary among vertebrae along the spinal column.

Maria Ines Hofmann, Thomas Böni, Kurt W. Alt, Ulrich Woitek, Frank J. Rühli, Paleopathologies of the Vertebral Column in Medieval Skeletons, Anthropologischer ...

Metastatic Glioblastoma Multiforme to the Vertebral Column The following represents disclosure information provided by authors of this manuscript. All relationships are considered compensated unless ...

X-ray photographs of part of the vertebral column of Eusthenopteron foordi Whiteaves show that each vertebral segment consists of (1) a centrum made up of two thin lateral concentric half rings; (2) ...