Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
Summer 2017
Abstract
The research summarized on this poster supports the use of the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) as a lab animal for research into invertebral disc formation and degeneration. Preliminary data suggests that some genes involved in the formation and maintenance of the notochord in mice are the same in the short-tailed opossum. Data also suggests the ossification of the vertebral column of pups proceeds anteriorly to posteriorly and that much of the maturation of the nucleus puposus happens in the first ten days.
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Recommended Citation
Gray, Emma C.B.; Maier, Jen; and Sears, Karen, "IVD Formation in Monodelphis domestica" (2017). PRECS student projects. 6.
https://spark.parkland.edu/precs_student/6
Comments
The research summarized in this poster is conducted at the Sears Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.