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We may not be buying what the label says on the tin: a cautionary tale from a study of the influence of proteoglycans on nerve growth (2017)
Journal Article
Owen, S., Fuller, H., Jones, P., Caterson, B., Shirran, S., Botting, C., & Roberts, S. (2017). We may not be buying what the label says on the tin: a cautionary tale from a study of the influence of proteoglycans on nerve growth. International Journal of Experimental Pathology, 98(3), A4

Introduction Commercially sourced preparations of reagents are an essential tool for all our laboratory studies and are assumed to have a certain degree of purity. During a study to determine how different proteoglycan substrates might control ner... Read More about We may not be buying what the label says on the tin: a cautionary tale from a study of the influence of proteoglycans on nerve growth.

Staying connected: structural integration at the intervertebral disc-vertebra interface of human lumbar spines. (2017)
Journal Article
Owen, S., Sharp, C., Broom, N., McCall, I., Roberts, S., Wade, K., & Rodrigues, S. (2017). Staying connected: structural integration at the intervertebral disc-vertebra interface of human lumbar spines. European Spine Journal, 248 -258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-016-4560-y

PURPOSE: To investigate the microscopic fibrous integration between the intervertebral disc, cartilage endplates and vertebral endplates in human lumbar spines of varying degrees of degeneration using differential interference contrast (DIC) optics.... Read More about Staying connected: structural integration at the intervertebral disc-vertebra interface of human lumbar spines..