| Pathobiology of Modic changes S Dudli, AJ Fields, D Samartzis, J Karppinen, JC Lotz European Spine Journal 25, 3723-3734, 2016 | 340 | 2016 |
| Directed evolution of a G protein-coupled receptor for expression, stability, and binding selectivity CA Sarkar, I Dodevski, M Kenig, S Dudli, A Mohr, E Hermans, A Plückthun Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (39), 14808-14813, 2008 | 230 | 2008 |
| ISSLS PRIZE IN BASIC SCIENCE 2017: Intervertebral disc/bone marrow cross-talk with Modic changes S Dudli, DC Sing, SS Hu, SH Berven, S Burch, V Deviren, I Cheng, ... European Spine Journal, 1-12, 2017 | 123 | 2017 |
| Propionibacterium acnes infected intervertebral discs cause vertebral bone marrow lesions consistent with Modic changes S Dudli, E Liebenberg, S Magnitsky, S Miller, S Demir‐Deviren, JC Lotz Journal of orthopaedic research 34 (8), 1447-1455, 2016 | 101 | 2016 |
| Fracture of the vertebral endplates, but not equienergetic impact load, promotes disc degeneration in vitro S Dudli, D Haschtmann, SJ Ferguson Journal of Orthopaedic Research 30 (5), 809-816, 2012 | 94 | 2012 |
| Severity and pattern of post-traumatic intervertebral disc degeneration depend on the type of injury S Dudli, SJ Ferguson, D Haschtmann The Spine Journal 14 (7), 1256-1264, 2014 | 69 | 2014 |
| Modic type 1 change is an autoimmune response that requires a proinflammatory milieu provided by the ‘Modic disc’ S Dudli, E Liebenberg, S Magnitsky, B Lu, M Lauricella, JC Lotz The Spine Journal 18 (5), 831-844, 2018 | 62 | 2018 |
| Persistent degenerative changes in the intervertebral disc after burst fracture in an in vitro model mimicking physiological post-traumatic conditions S Dudli, D Haschtmann, SJ Ferguson European Spine Journal 24, 1901-1908, 2015 | 52 | 2015 |
| Development of a standardized histopathology scoring system for intervertebral disc degeneration in rat models: An initiative of the ORS spine section A Lai, J Gansau, SE Gullbrand, J Crowley, C Cunha, S Dudli, JB Engiles, ... JOR spine 4 (2), e1150, 2021 | 50 | 2021 |
| Inflammatory response of disc cells against Propionibacterium acnes depends on the presence of lumbar Modic changes S Dudli, S Miller, S Demir-Deviren, JC Lotz European spine Journal, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
| Machine learning-based classification of 38 years of spine-related literature into 100 research topics DC Sing, LN Metz, S Dudli Spine 42 (11), 863-870, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
| Leukocytes enhance inflammatory and catabolic degenerative changes in the intervertebral disc after endplate fracture in vitro without infiltrating the disc S Dudli, DB Boffa, SJ Ferguson, D Haschtmann Spine 40 (23), 1799-1806, 2015 | 25 | 2015 |
| Pulsed electromagnetic fields reduce acute inflammation in the injured rat‐tail intervertebral disc AK Chan, X Tang, NV Mummaneni, D Coughlin, E Liebenberg, A Ouyang, ... JOR spine 2 (4), e1069, 2019 | 24 | 2019 |
| Serum biomarkers for Modic changes in patients with chronic low back pain J Karppinen, K Koivisto, J Ketola, M Haapea, M Paananen, KH Herzig, ... European Spine Journal 30, 1018-1027, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Serum biomarkers for connective tissue and basement membrane remodeling are associated with vertebral endplate bone marrow lesions as seen on MRI (Modic changes) S Dudli, A Ballatori, AC Bay-Jensen, ZL McCormick, CW O’Neill, ... International journal of molecular sciences 21 (11), 3791, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| Pro-inflammatory and neurotrophic factor responses of cells derived from degenerative human intervertebral discs to the opportunistic pathogen Cutibacterium acnes MN Capoor, A Konieczna, A McDowell, F Ruzicka, M Smrcka, R Jancalek, ... International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22 (5), 2347, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
| Quantification of propionic acid in the bovine spinal disk after infection of the tissue with propionibacteria acnes bacteria S Magnitsky, S Dudli, X Tang, J Kaur, J Diaz, S Miller, JC Lotz Spine 43 (11), E634-E638, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
| The effect of zoledronic acid on serum biomarkers among patients with chronic low back pain and modic changes in lumbar magnetic resonance imaging K Koivisto, J Karppinen, M Haapea, J Järvinen, E Kyllönen, O Tervonen, ... Diagnostics 9 (4), 212, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
| CD90-positive stromal cells associate with inflammatory and fibrotic changes in modic changes S Dudli, A Karol, L Giudici, I Heggli, CJ Laux, JM Spirig, F Wanivenhaus, ... Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open 4 (3), 100287, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Larger vertebral endplate concavities cause higher failure load and work at failure under high-rate impact loading of rabbit spinal explants S Dudli, W Enns-Bray, Y Pauchard, A Römmeler, AJ Fields, SJ Ferguson, ... Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials 80, 104-110, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
Stephen J. FergusonProfessor of Biomechanics, ETH ZurichVerified email at ethz.ch
