Artificial bone (PC, containing 3% indomethacin) with biocompatibility, inter-connective pore structure, and drug delivery ability was obtained from self-setting apatite/collagen composite cement. X-ray powder diffraction and FT-IR spectroscopy suggested that PC consisted of carbonated apatite and had a structure similar to that of natural rat bone. The IMC release rates from a PC block contain...

Dental caries is a highly prevalent disease, although, in most developed countries, its prevalence has declined, but the disease remains a major public health problem (Selwitz et al., 2007). Signs of the caries process cover a continuum from the first molecular changes in the apatite crystals of the tooth to a visible white-spot lesion, continuing with dentin involvement and eventual cavitation...

The preparation of graphene/apatite and graphene oxide/apatite hybrid nanocomposites has recently attracted great attention in the biomaterial community. sitting drop vapor diffusion technique been assessed as a preparative method for such this work. employed to induce heterogeneous nucleation growth calcium phosphate presence exfoliated commercial oxide flakes, both labeled with L-Alanine. Exf...

the bikilal layered gabbro-complex is composed of zones/layers of olivine/ pyroxene gabbro and hornblende gabbro. within the hornblende gabbro, repeated lens-like thin and elongated bodies of hornblendite are found intimately associated with massive and disseminated ilmenite-magnetite bodies, in places with apatite. petrological examination of the hornblende gabbro shows 50-55% hornblende, 40-4...

Lunar meteorites provide a wider sampling of the lunar surface compared to the samples collected during the Apollo and Luna Missions. Apatite is the main hydroxyl-bearing (proxy for water) mineral in lunar samples, especially in basaltic rocks. Apatite is also amenable to in-situ U-Pb age dating studies. The ages of lunar basaltic meteorites also span over a larger range compared to basaltic sa...

Early Cambrian volcanic rocks of the Posht-e Badam tectonic block in Central Iran which is hydrothermally altered to green color rocks, hosts the Kiruna-type Iron Oxide-Apatite (IOA) mineralization in Anomaly 10 of Sechahun deposit. Geochemically, these volcanic rocks are classified as high-potassium calc-alkaline and mainly consist of rhyolite and trachyandesite. These rocks are important for ...

COMPOSITIONS FROM WHICH APATITE CRYSTALLIZES. N. J. Potts 1,2* , R. Tartèse 1 , M. Anand 1,3 , I. A. Franchi 1 , W. van Westrenen 2 , J. J. Barnes 1,3 , A. A. Griffiths 1,4 1 Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, (*[email protected]) 2 Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, NL 3 Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Muse...