BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Degenerative disc disease is commonly a multilevel pathology
with varying deterioration severity. The use of fusion on multiple levels can significantly affect …

Study Design. A validated L3–L4 nonlinear finite element model was used to evaluate strain
and pressure in the surrounding structures for 4 nucleus replacement technologies. …

Materials and Methods To quantify and compare the dynamic properties between the natural
intervertebral disk, a prosthetic disk, and a fused motion segment, a factorial measures …

Arthritis is a chronic, debilitating disease affecting one in six people in the United States
annually. One of the most promising surgical treatments is total joint replacement. After decades …

Background Data Cervical arthroplasty offers theoretical advantages over traditional spinal
fusion, including elimination of adjacent segment disease and elimination of the risk of …

Football, one of the country’s most popular team sports, is associated with the largest
overall number of sports-related, catastrophic, cervical spine injuries in the United States (Mueller, …

Background Context Although approximately 30% of chronic lumbar pain can be attributed
to the facets, limited surgical options exist for patients. Interpositional facet arthroplasty (IFA) …

We have previously identified a tonicity-responsive enhancer (TonE) in the promoter region
of the canine BGT1 gene. TonE mediates hypertonicity-induced stimulation of transcription. …

We chose a title that remarks one of Professor Adelman’s favorite analogies and also serves
as a sign of the times. He first used the expression “the genie is out of the bottle” in 1971 in …

Keyword Index Page 1 PERMUTED TITLE INDEX This section contains an index of current
working papers by permuted title. The permuted title entry is followed by the name of the …