Research Article
DSC Study of Collagen in Disc Disease
Table 1
Denaturation temperature of disc collagen obtained with the heating rate of 5°C/min.
| Patient | Age of patient | Denaturation temperature T (°C) | Enthalpy, H (J/g) |
| Men | 26 | 81.5 | 25.4 | 27 | 97.9 | 30.6 | 34 | 87.4 | 70.2 | 36 | 88.9 | — | 38 | 83.5 | — | 39 | 92.0 | — | 42 | 82.4 | 29.9 | 44 | 92.1 | 14.8 | 45 | 104.8 | 61.2 | 46 | 88.8 | 52.7 | 48 | 91.2 | 66.8 | 48 | 85.5 | — | 48 | 81.0 | — | 49 | 93.5 | 29.0 | 54 | 84.6 | — | 60 | 84.0 | 24.0 |
| Women | 31 | 89.8 | — | 31 | 84.2 | 17.7 | 32 | 101.5 | 22.6 | 32 | 103.7 | 18.5 | 34 | 101.5 | 17,0 | 37 | 104.5 | 54.9 | 42 | 99.4 | 33.5 | 43 | 93.7 | — | 45 | 101.7 | 11.5 | 46 | 97.1 | 30.5 | 50 | 95.6 | 61.0 | 56 | 86.3 | 18.5 | 60 | 84.3 | 58.3 |
| Healthy control | 36 | 94.6 | 93.7 |
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