mortality/aging
• mice exhibit a degenerative phenotype resembling premature aging
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skeleton
• 2-month-old mice show a moderate decrease in the cellularity of the nucleus pulposus
• senescence of nucleus pulposus cells
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• intervertebral disc degeneration occurs at 2 months of age, as evidenced by collapsed disc space, narrowed endplates height, and a moderate decrease in the cellularity of the nucleus pulposus
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homeostasis/metabolism
• in a surgically induced intervertebral disc degeneration model established by needle puncture, mice show more severe degeneration of NPs and intervertebral discs than wild-type mice
• in the surgically induced intervertebral disc degeneration model, treatment with an adenovirus expressing an shPUM1 and shPUM2 restores the degeneration of IVD to some extent
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