The nano-morphological relationships between apatite crystals and collagen fibrils in ivory dentine

Biomaterials

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5275-5286

  Jantou Morris, V ^a   Horton, Michael A ^b   McComb, David W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apatite; Collagen D banding; EELS; FIB milling; HAADF STEM; Ivory dentine

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; APATITE CRYSTALS; BRIGHT BAND; COLLAGEN FIBRILS; CORE LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FIB MILLING; FIELD EMISSION GUNS; FINE STRUCTURES; FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING; HAADF-STEM; HIGH-ANGLE ANNULAR DARK FIELDS; LONGITUDINAL SECTION; SCANNING TEM; SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; SPECTRUM IMAGING; TEM; THIN SECTION; TRANSVERSE PLANES; TRANSVERSE SECTION; ULTRA-MICROTOMY;

APATITE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; COLLAGEN; CRYSTALS; MILLING (MACHINING); OXYGEN; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; PHOSPHORUS; PIXELS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

APATITE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CARBON; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTIN; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELEPHANT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; APATITES; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENTIN; ELEPHANTS; FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOOTH;

EID: 77952287673     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.03.025     Document Type: Article

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