Transcriptional profiling of human cartilage endplate cells identifies novel genes and cell clusters underlying degenerated and non-degenerated phenotypes.

"raw bulk (gse242040) and single-cell rna sequencing data (gse242443) are publicly available in the geo database. availability of data and materials all figures and tables referenced in this study are available within this published article or available as supplementary files. raw bulk (gse242040"

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll cadaveric human tissue samples were obtained through Ohio State University’s Cooperative Human Tissue Network and were obtained through an Institutional Review Board exemption as this research is classified as non-human subject research. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Funding for this work was supported by the award UL1TR002733 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and NSF CAREER grant 2143123."