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Analysis of Minerals Produced by hFOB 1.19 and Saos-2 Cells Using Transmission Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive X-ray Microanalysis
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Controlled mineralization by extracellular matrix: monodisperse, colloidally stable calcium phosphate-hyaluronan
Zhenhua Chen1, Huihui Zhou, Xiaoliang Wang
1National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 8, 2010
Abstract:
Uniform, monodisperse calcium phosphate nanospheres (40 nm) were prepared using a simple co-precipitation method via the segregation crystallization imposed by hyaluronan molecules. The nanospheres exhibit excellent colloidal/storage stability in water due to the incorporated extracellular substance.
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