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From: Paraspinal Muscle Health is Related to Fibrogenic, Adipogenic, and Myogenic Gene Expression in Patients with Lumbar Spine Pathology

Fig. 1

Pathological muscle adaptations. T2-weighted axial MRIs of the lumbar paraspinal muscles (red outlines) from three different individuals, depicting muscle degeneration. Panel (a) depicts an individual with minimal fatty infiltration of the multifidus (M) muscle compartment. Panel (b) depicts an individual with moderate fatty infiltration, while panel (c) depicts an individual with high fatty infiltration. In conventional T2-weighted MRI imaging, muscle and fibrosis both appear dark and fatty tissue appears bright, as depicted above

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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

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