ArticleScientific reports2020
The phenotypic morphology of human lumbar plexus roots associated with changes in the thoracolumbar vertebral count and trade-off.
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Abstract
This study investigated the developmental basis for the human phenotypic morphology of the interaction between the vertebrae and the nerve plexus by evaluating changes in the human lumbar plexus according to various thoracolumbar formulas. The dissection found that the changes in lumbar nerve roots reported by experimental embryology studies to be concomitant with thoracolumbar trade-off, i.e., a change in vertebrae from thoracic to lumbar with no change in the overall thoracolumbar count, were not apparent in humans with the usual 17 or mutant 16 thoracolumbar vertebrae. When vertebral changes in two segments were examined by comparing spines with a reduced thoracolumbar count of 16 to those with an increased count of 18, this tended to show only a single-segment caudal shift of the lumbar plexus. We cannot provide evidence for the phylogenetic difference in the concomitant changes of lumbar nerves and vertebrae, but comparisons between experimental rodents and humans highlighted fewer and shorter lumbar vertebra and more complicated lumbar plexus in humans. Therefore, these multiple differences may contribute to a human phenotypic morphology that is not evident in the concomitant transformation of vertebrae and lumbar nerves reported in experimental rodents.
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