| Literature DB >> 15046939 |
Tadashi Kokubo1, Masayuki Hanakawa, Masakazu Kawashita, Masahiko Minoda, Toshiyuki Beppu, Takeaki Miyamoto, Takashi Nakamura.
Abstract
Chitin fibres constituting a non-woven fabric were carboxymethylated in monochloro acetic acid and treated with saturated Ca(OH)(2) aqueous solution. Within 3 days in a simulated body fluid with pH value and ion concentrations nearly equal to those of human blood plasma, a bonelike apatite layer formed on the surface of fibres of the treated fabric. The apatite-chitin fibre composite thus prepared is expected to be useful as a flexible bioactive bone-repairing material.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 15046939 DOI： 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2003.11.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomaterials ISSN： 0142-9612 Impact factor: 12.479