The distribution and arrangement of elastic fibres in the intervertebral disc of the adult human.

摘要: Selected cervical and thoracic intervertebral discs were removed from twelve human adults at autopsy. The prepared by the paraffin method, stained with orcein or Verhoff's technique examined light microscope for presence of elastic fibres. Elastic fibres located only in lamellae anulus fibrosus superficial zones nucleus pulposus regions disc that connected interfaced osseous vertebrae. longitudinally, circularly obliquely arranged penetrated bony vertebrae as Sharpey's assumed a three dimensional lattice work zone it to hyaline cartilage end plate Irregularly interconnected fibrosus. major histological component ligamenta flava anterior longitudinal ligaments.