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ArticleJOR spine2025

Do we know more about the mechanobiology of the intervertebral disc in space than on Earth?

Timothy Patrick Holsgrove, Isabelle Ebisch, Daniela Lazaro-Pacheco

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Article in JOR spine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. SiACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Timothy Patrick HolsgroveDepartment of Engineering, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy University of Exeter Exeter UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2832-4958
Isabelle EbischDepartment of Engineering, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy University of Exeter Exeter UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7557-7849
Daniela Lazaro-PachecoDepartment of Engineering, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy University of Exeter Exeter UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0100-9416

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This work provides a perspective on the loading protocols used in whole-organ interverterbal disc culture studies using bioreactors. We put this in the context of in vivo spinal loading, and we put forward the case that the majority of previous bioreactor studies have more in common with spinal loading in space than on Earth. Finally, we provide an outlook for the future of bioreactor research, to provide data more relevant to spinal loading on Earth, and maximize the translational potential of findings to the clinical setting.

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biomechanicsbioreactorsculture systemsintervertebral discmechanobiologymicrogravityphysiological loadingspace

Identifiers

PMID39968355
PMCPMC11834163

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