The concurrent release of calcium phosphate and biomacromolecules may improve wound healing responses at the interface with ceramic materials of orthopaedic and dental implants. Hydrogel coatings consisting of a mixture of alginate and chitosan were doped and applied onto solid carriers with the aim of investigating their use as local delivery vehicles. Coatings containing both the model macrom...

Histochemical methods have been devised Lo demonstrate certain metabolic activities of cells. By these techniques certain structures in a particular tissue are made to stand out in contrast to the other constituents. We have applied the methods for demonstrating alkaline and acid phosphatase activity to the study of the skin in leprosy. Pearse (5) has pointed out that these methods depend on in...

Red meat intake is associated with increased risk of colorectal cancer. We have previously shown that haemin, haemoglobin and red meat promote carcinogen-induced preneoplastic lesions, aberrant crypt foci, in the colon of rats. We have also shown that dietary calcium phosphate inhibits haemin-induced promotion, and normalizes faecal lipoperoxides and cytotoxicity. Unexpectedly, high-calcium pho...

Background: To evaluate and compare the microhardness of deciduous teeth treated with nano-hydroxyapatite and calcium sucrose phosphate after iron drop exposure. Material and Methods: Twenty healthy anterior deciduous teeth were collected and stored in 0.9% saline solution at room temperature. All the teeth were immersed in artificial saliva in an incubator shaker at 37° for an hour and then su...

Casein phosphopeptides-amorphous calcium phosphate (CPP-ACP) is a bioactive agent with a base of milk products, which has been formulated from two parts: casein phosphopeptides (CPP) and amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP). CPP was produced from milk protein casein and has a remarkable ability to stabilize calcium phosphate in solution and to substantially increase the level of calcium phosphate ...

In small ruminants especially in caprine breeds clinical obstructive urolithiasis is most frequently seen in young males that have been castrated at an extremely young age because of marketing to the pet market rather than the production market. The stones can be composed of phosphate and calcium salts: calcium phosphate (apatite), magnesium ammonium phosphate (struvite), calcium carbonate, cal...

placed the weanling vitamin D-deficient rats on a diet Parathyroid hormone (PTH ) gene expression is reguwith no vitamin D, a low calcium and a low phosphate. lated transcriptionally by 23 which is able After one night of this diet, the serum phosphate had to decrease PTH transcription dramatically [1], and markedly decreased with no changes in serum calcium post-transcriptionally by calcium an...

Cellular injury induced by reperfusion after myocardial ischemia is manifested by striking mitochondrial damage as well as other hallmarks such as contraction band necrosis. Calcium has been implicated as a mediator of irreversible cellular injury in several systems. To identify other potential mediators of the mitochondrial injury associated with reperfusion, interactions between inorganic pho...

Although salivary alkaline phosphatase (ALP) can balance deand remineralization processes of enamel, there is no evidence regarding its effects on the concentrations of calcium and phosphate in saliva. The present study aims to determine the relationship between salivary ALP activity and the concentrations of calcium and phosphate in saliva. In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated salivary ...