Study Design. Review article. Objectives. To provide an overview of current techniques for
minimally invasive lumbar fusion. Summary of Background Data. Minimally invasive …

… Styf JR, Willen J: The effects of external compression by three different retractors on pressure
in the erector spine muscles during and after posterior lumbar spine surgery in humans. …

Isoprenoids are one of the largest groups of natural compounds and have a variety of
important functions in the primary metabolism of land plants and algae. In recent years, our …

Isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) is the biological C 5 precursor of isoprenoids. By labeling
experiments using [1- 13 C]glucose, higher plants were shown to possess two distinct …

Forty-nine patients underwent minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF)
from October 2001 to August 2002 (minimum 18-month follow-up). The diagnosis was …

Efficient storage of carbon in seeds is crucial to plant fitness and to agricultural productivity.
Oil is a major reserve material in most seeds 1 , and these oils provide the largest source of …

… coli (Schwender prenyl side-chain of ubiquinone from E. coli (STJ et al. 1996, and Fig. 2a). …
. 1993) and later also in green algae (Schwender et al. 1996) and for plastidic isoprenoids of …

The genome of Arabidopsis has been searched for sequences of genes involved in acyl
lipid metabolism. Over 600 encoded proteins have been identified, cataloged, and classified …

… # ]glucose, the signals of carbon atoms C-2 and C-4 from phytol appeared as doublets with
a #J "$C\"$C coupling constant of 2.7 Hz (Figure 2b). No other coupling was detected in the "…

Developing oilseeds synthesize large quantities of triacylglycerol from sucrose and hexose.
To understand the fluxes involved in this conversion, a quantitative metabolic flux model was …