Everything about L4

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: L4A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The relationship between paraspinal muscle atrophy and degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis at the L4/5 levelInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Ab urbe conditaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: 1986 Volvo Award in Biomechanics: Partitioning of the L4 - L5 Dynamic Moment into Disc, Ligamentous, and Muscular Components During LiftingCited 430 times
5. Go sideways: L5A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: L1A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• 1986 Volvo Award in Biomechanics: Partitioning of the L4 - L5 Dynamic Moment into Disc, Ligamentous, and Muscular Components During Lifting

  S M McGILL, R W NORMAN · 1986 · Spine · 430 citations

• Mutations in 23S rRNA and Ribosomal Protein L4 Account for Resistance in Pneumococcal Strains Selected In Vitro by Macrolide Passage

  A. Tait-Kamradt, T. Davies, M. Cronan · 2000 · Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy · 225 citations

• The Polypeptide Tunnel System in the Ribosome and Its Gating in Erythromycin Resistance Mutants of L4 and L22

  Irene S. Gabashvili, Steven T. Gregory, Mikel Valle · 2001 · Molecular Cell · 179 citations

• Multicavity [Pd n L4]2 n + Cages with Controlled Segregated Binding of Different Guests

  Dan Preston, James E. M. Lewis, James D. Crowley · 2017 · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 176 citations

• VR1, but not P2X3, increases in the spared L4 DRG in rats with L5 spinal nerve ligation

  Tetsuo Fukuoka, Atsushi Tokunaga, Toshiya Tachibana · 2002 · Pain · 166 citations

• A Prospective Comparison of Surgical Approach for Anterior L4–L5 Fusion

  Thomas A. Zdeblick, Stephen M. David · 2000 · Spine · 156 citations

• Modality-specific thalamocortical inputs instruct the identity of postsynaptic L4 neurons

  Gabrielle Pouchelon, Frédéric Gambino, Camilla Bellone · 2014 · Nature · 155 citations

• Biodegradation of dimethyl phthalate, diethyl phthalate and di-n-butyl phthalate by Rhodococcus sp. L4 isolated from activated sludge

  Yi Lu, Fei Tang, Ying Wang · 2009 · Journal of Hazardous Materials · 152 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The relationship between paraspinal muscle atrophy and degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis at the L4/5 level

  Paul Köhli, Lukas Schönnagel, Jan Hambrecht · 2024 · The Spine Journal · 41 citations

• Asymmetry in the number of L4 and L5 Jupiter Trojans driven by jumping Jupiter

  Jian Li, Zhihong Jeff Xia, Fumi Yoshida · 2023 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 32 citations

• Fermentative reforming of crude glycerol to 1,3-propanediol using Clostridium butyricum strain L4

  Pragya Gupta, Manoj Kumar, Ravi Prakash Gupta · 2022 · Chemosphere · 32 citations

• Comparative analysis of the effects of OLIF and TLIF on adjacent segments after treatment of L4 degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis

  Guang-qing Li, Tong Tong, Lin-feng Wang · 2022 · Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research · 26 citations

• Silencing of the immune gene BmPGRP‐L4 in the midgut affects the growth of silkworm ( Bombyx mori ) larvae

  Yebin Liang, Tao Wang, Weiyi Yang · 2023 · Insect Molecular Biology · 25 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Ab urbe conditaTitus Livius · 1481
• Paradise LostJohn Milton · 1667
• Lady Audley's secretMary Elizabeth Braddon · 1862
• Management information systemsKenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon · 1945
• Ecclesiastical historyEusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, G. Williamson · 1476
• Lettres philosophiquesVoltaire · 1733
• The Ugly AmericanWilliam J. Lederer, Eugene Burdick · 1958
• The worldly philosophersRobert L. Heilbroner · 1953

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