Amorphous calcium phosphate is a major component of the forming fin bones of zebrafish: Indications for an amorphous precursor phase

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

Volumn 105, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 12748-12753

  Mahamid, Julia ^a   Sharir, Amnon ^b   Addadi, Lia ^a   Weiner, Steve ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biomineralization; Fish fin

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE; BONE MATURATION; BONE MINERALIZATION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTISCANNING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; MALE; OSTEOGENESIS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 51349126458     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803354105     Document Type: Article

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