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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2019 Mar 18;87:177–182. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.03.013

Figure 1:

Figure 1:

(A) Picture of a human lumbar intervertebral disc (IVD, L2–3, non-degenerated). (B) Schematic of a quarter of the IVD-vertebra segment used in the FEM analysis (due to symmetry). (C) Schematic of the diurnal compression (on a quarter of the disc). (D) Schematic of the transient antibiotic concentration at the disc boundary. NP: Nucleus pulposus. AF: Annulus fibrosus. CEP: Cartilaginous endplate.