[Change in the makeup of the bony tissue of the spine in experimental scoliosis].

Deveropment of experimental scoliosis in rabbits, produced by single-side rhizotomia at Th5-Th9, was accompained by accumulation of hexoses, hexoseamines and collagen in corpus vertebrae and in processus spinosus of the primary arch of curvature within all the periods of observation (23 months) as well as by an increase in content of calcium and phosphorus, occurring at the period of the scoliosis complete stabilization (10-11 months). Similar, although less distinct, alterations were found in the compensatory arch of curvature.