Although titanium alloys remain the preferred biomaterials for the manufacture of biomedical implants today, such devices can fail within 15 years of implantation due to inadequate osseointegration. Furthermore, wear debris toxicity due to alloy metal ion release has been found to cause side-effects including neurotoxicity and chronic inflammation. Titanium, with its known biocompatibility, cor...

PURPOSE Severe wear of cast commercial pure (CP) titanium teeth was observed in a clinical survey. This study evaluated the wear resistance of cast CP titanium and titanium alloy teeth after the surface was modified using laser technology. METHODS Teeth patterns were duplicated from artificial first molars (Livdent FB30, GC, Japan). All teeth specimens were cast with CP Ti grade 3 (T-Alloy H,...

DNA protein cross-links (DPC), DNA interstrand cross-links (ISCL), and DNA single strand breaks following treatment of experimental ovarian tumor cells (O-342) with five new metal complexes (three platinum, one titanium, one ruthenium compounds) were investigated at 6, 24, and 48 h after drug exposure and compared with their in vitro growth inhibitory potential. cis-Diamminedichloroplatinum(II)...

Titanium (Ti) is a relatively abundant element that has found growing applications in medical science and recently some of Ti compounds are introduced as anticancer drugs. In spite of very limited data which exist on the Ti metabolism, some proteins might be involved in the mechanism of action of Ti. Up to our knowledge, there is not any report in the literature concerning binding of Ti to apol...

conclusions the combination of intravenous paracetamol 1 gr and ketamine 0.5 mg/kg resulted in an overall reduction in pain scores, decreased postoperative analgesic requirements, and lower agitation score compared with intravenous paracetamol 1 gr and tramadol 0.7 mg/kg for patients undergoing renal surgery. results postoperative pain scores were significantly lower in the pk group than in the...