| Are animal models useful for studying human disc disorders/degeneration? M Alini, SM Eisenstein, K Ito, C Little, AA Kettler, K Masuda, J Melrose, ... European Spine Journal 17, 2-19, 2008 | 830 | 2008 |
| A novel rabbit model of mild, reproducible disc degeneration by an anulus needle puncture: correlation between the degree of disc injury and radiological and histological … K Masuda, Y Aota, C Muehleman, Y Imai, M Okuma, EJ Thonar, ... Spine 30 (1), 5-14, 2005 | 822 | 2005 |
| Platelet-rich plasma stimulates porcine articular chondrocyte proliferation and matrix biosynthesis K Akeda, HS An, M Okuma, M Attawia, K Miyamoto, EJMA Thonar, ... Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 14 (12), 1272-1280, 2006 | 562 | 2006 |
| Exhaustion of nucleus pulposus progenitor cells with ageing and degeneration of the intervertebral disc D Sakai, Y Nakamura, T Nakai, T Mishima, S Kato, S Grad, M Alini, ... Nature communications 3 (1), 1264, 2012 | 449 | 2012 |
| Osteogenic protein-1 injection into a degenerated disc induces the restoration of disc height and structural changes in the rabbit anular puncture model K Masuda, Y Imai, M Okuma, C Muehleman, K Nakagawa, K Akeda, ... Spine 31 (7), 742-754, 2006 | 357 | 2006 |
| A novel two‐step method for the formation of tissue‐engineered cartilage by mature bovine chondrocytes: the alginate‐recovered‐chondrocyte (ARC) method K Masuda, RL Sah, MJ Hejna, EJMA Thonar Journal of Orthopaedic Research 21 (1), 139-148, 2003 | 344 | 2003 |
| A systems biology approach to synovial joint lubrication in health, injury, and disease AY Hui, WJ McCarty, K Masuda, GS Firestein, RL Sah Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine 4 (1), 15-37, 2012 | 342 | 2012 |
| Tensile mechanical properties of bovine articular cartilage: variations with growth and relationships to collagen network components AK Williamson, AC Chen, K Masuda, EJMA Thonar, RL Sah Journal of Orthopaedic Research 21 (5), 872-880, 2003 | 341 | 2003 |
| Intradiscal administration of osteogenic protein-1 increases intervertebral disc height and proteoglycan content in the nucleus pulposus in normal adolescent rabbits HS An, K Takegami, H Kamada, CM Nguyen, EJMA Thonar, K Singh, ... Spine 30 (1), 25-31, 2005 | 332 | 2005 |
| Tissue engineering of stratified articular cartilage from chondrocyte subpopulations TJ Klein, BL Schumacher, TA Schmidt, KW Li, MS Voegtline, K Masuda, ... Osteoarthritis and cartilage 11 (8), 595-602, 2003 | 296 | 2003 |
| Effects of growth differentiation factor-5 on the intervertebral disc− in vitro bovine study and in vivo rabbit disc degeneration model study T Chujo, HS An, K Akeda, K Miyamoto, C Muehleman, M Attawia, ... Spine 31 (25), 2909-2917, 2006 | 295 | 2006 |
| Growth factors and treatment of intervertebral disc degeneration K Masuda, TR Oegema Jr, HS An Spine 29 (23), 2757-2769, 2004 | 283 | 2004 |
| Targeted disruption of TGF-β/Smad3 signaling modulates skin fibrosis in a mouse model of scleroderma G Lakos, S Takagawa, SJ Chen, AM Ferreira, G Han, K Masuda, XJ Wang, ... The American journal of pathology 165 (1), 203-217, 2004 | 282 | 2004 |
| Changes in mRNA and protein levels of proteoglycans of the anulus fibrosus and nucleus pulposus during intervertebral disc degeneration G Cs-Szabo, D Ragasa-San Juan, V Turumella, K Masuda, EJMA Thonar, ... Spine 27 (20), 2212-2219, 2002 | 281 | 2002 |
| The origin of chondrocytes in the nucleus pulposus and histologic findings associated with the transition of a notochordal nucleus pulposus to a fibrocartilaginous nucleus … KW Kim, TH Lim, JG Kim, ST Jeong, K Masuda, HS An Spine 28 (10), 982-990, 2003 | 280 | 2003 |
| Biological repair of the degenerated intervertebral disc by the injection of growth factors K Masuda European Spine Journal 17 (Suppl 4), 441-451, 2008 | 279 | 2008 |
| Adult human chondrocytes cultured in alginate form a matrix similar to native human articular cartilage HJ Hauselmann, K Masuda, EB Hunziker, M Neidhart, SS Mok, BA Michel, ... American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 271 (3), C742-C752, 1996 | 268 | 1996 |
| Recombinant osteogenic protein‐1 upregulates extracellular matrix metabolism by rabbit annulus fibrosus and nucleus pulposus cells cultured in alginate beads K Masuda, K Takegami, H An, F Kumano, K Chiba, GBJ Andersson, ... Journal of Orthopaedic Research 21 (5), 922-930, 2003 | 263 | 2003 |
| Age-related changes in the extracellular matrix of nucleus pulposus and anulus fibrosus of human intervertebral disc K Singh, K Masuda, EJMA Thonar, HS An, G Cs-Szabo Spine 34 (1), 10-16, 2009 | 246 | 2009 |
| Animal models for human disc degeneration K Singh, K Masuda, HS An The Spine Journal 5 (6), S267-S279, 2005 | 235 | 2005 |
Robert L SahProfessor of Bioengineering, University of CaliforniaVerified email at ucsd.edu
