Dual roles of brushite crystals in calcium oxalate crystallization provide physicochemical mechanisms underlying renal stone formation

Kidney International

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-78

  Tang, R ^a,b   Nancollas, G H ^a   Giocondi, J L ^c   Hoyer, J R ^d   Orme, C A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomineralization; Brushite; Calcium oxalate; Phase transformation; Renal stone

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXALATE;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; BRUSHITE CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISSOLUTION; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

CALCIUM OXALATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33745697882     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ki.5000424     Document Type: Article

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