Purported nanobacteria in human blood as calcium carbonate nanoparticles (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2008) 105, (5549-5554) doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711744105);Purported nanobacteria in human blood as calcium carbonate nanoparticles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5549-5554

  Martel, Jan ^a   Young, John Ding E ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human serum albumin; Hydroxyapatite; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CALCIUM CARBONATE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NANOPARTICLE; SODIUM CARBONATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM COLONY; BLOOD; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; NANOBACTERIA; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 44449141307     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809132105     Document Type: Erratum

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