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Table 1 Patient details and grades of disc degeneration in tissues used for immunohistochemical analysis

From: The role of interleukin-1 in the pathogenesis of human Intervertebral disc degeneration

Laboratory number

Source of tissue

Sex

Age (y)

Clinical diagnosis

Disc level

Histological grade

1

Post-mortem

Male

53

No data

L4/5

1

2

Post-mortem

Male

53

No data

L5/S1

1

3

Surgical

Male

44

Relatively normal

L4/5

1

4

Surgical

Male

47

Relatively normal

L4/5

2

5

Post-mortem

Male

75

No data

L5/S1

3

6

Surgical

Male

?

Disc degeneration

L5/S1

3

7

Surgical

Male

48

Disc degeneration

L4/5

3

8

Surgical

Male

64

Disc degeneration

L5/S1

3

9

Surgical

Male

46

Disc degeneration

L5/S1

4

10

Surgical

Male

21

Disc degeneration

L5/S1

4

11

Surgical

Female

36

Disc degeneration

L5/S1

4

12

Surgical

Male

39

Disc degeneration

L4/5

5

13

Surgical

Female

32

Disc degeneration

L5/S1

5

14

Surgical

Female

36

Disc degeneration

L4/5

5

15

Surgical

Male

25

Disc degeneration

L4/5

5

16

Surgical

Female

35

Disc degeneration

L4/5

6

17

Surgical

Male

40

Disc degeneration

L4/5

6

18

Post-mortem

Female

73

No data

L5/S1

6

19

Surgical

Male

25

Disc degeneration

L5/S1

6

20

Surgical

Female

55

Disc degeneration

L5/S1

7

21

Post-mortem

Female

?

No data

L4/5

7

22

Surgical

Female

58

Disc degeneration

L4/5

7

23

Surgical

Male

34

Disc degeneration

L4/5

8

24

Surgical

Female

24

Disc degeneration

L5/S1

8

25

Surgical

Female

33

Disc degeneration

L5/S1

9

26

Post-mortem

Female

73

No data

L4/5

9

27

Surgical

Male

68

Disc degeneration

L5/S1

10

28

Post-mortem

?

47

No data

L5/S1

10

29

Post-mortem

?

47

No data

L5/S1

11

30

Surgical

Male

39

Disc degeneration

L4/5

12

  1. ?, not known.