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Distribution of highly strained tissue in tension (red) and in compression (blue) within the superior endplate of a human vertebral body when loaded via simulated intervertebral disc (left). Removing the Poisson expansion of the disc led to a 96% reduction in the total amount of highly-strained endplate tissue (inferior + superior) for this vertebral body (right).
