. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 30.

Published in final edited form as: J Orthop Res. 2013 Nov 23;32(2):245–252. doi: 10.1002/jor.22516

Table 1.

Donor Age, Sex, and Spinal Level for n = 20 Endplate Cartilage Samples

Donor No.	Age (Years)	Sex	Levels^a
1	51	Male	L2i, L3s, L4s, L5i, S1s
2	57	Male	L4i, L5s, L5i, S1s
3	60	Male	L3i
4	61	Female	L5s
5	63	Female	L1i, L2s, L3i, L4i, L5i
6	67	Male	L3i, L4s, L5i, S1s

Levels denote cartilage samples taken from the superior (s) and inferior (i) endplate of a given vertebra.