The lumbar intervertebral disc has a meager innervation. This is concentrated in the perianular connective tissue and the central endplate. Although receptor threshold is more closely related to nociceptive function than innervation density, these findings have important implications for any treatment of discogenic pain.

Liposomes containing eortisol palmitate showed greater antl-inflammatory activity than water soluble eortisol sueclnate, following intravenous injection into rats, as assessed by inhibition of (a) earrageenan-indueed paw swelling, and (b) inflammatory responses in subcutaneous sponge implants impregnated with heat-killed Myeobacterium tuberculosis.

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