The anti-oxidative properties of α-tocopherol in γ-irradiated UHMWPE with respect to fatigue and oxidation resistance

Biomaterials

Volumn 26, Issue 29, 2005, Pages 5755-5762

  Shibata, Nobuyuki ^a   Tomita, Naohide ^b  

^a NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

irradiation; Crystallinity; Delamination; Oxidation; Tocopherol; UHMWPE

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS; DELAMINATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENES;

FATIGUE PERFORMANCE; OXIDATION STABILITY; SCANNING ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY (SAT); TOCOPHERYL ACETATE;

ALCOHOLS;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DELAMINATION; GAMMA IRRADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; KNEE ENDOPROSTHESIS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXYGEN; POLYETHYLENES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 20444423321     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2005.02.035     Document Type: Article

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