AbstractWe used scanning electron microscopy to examine the microcirculation in the vertebral end‐plates of rabbits. The arteriola arborizes and swells at the end‐plate and then coils to make a microvessel loop. This loop is the structure we refer to as a vascular bud. We suggest that these loop structures of the capillaries play a major role in the nutrition of the intervertebral di
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