A model for the ultrastructure of bone based on electron microscopy of ion-milled sections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  McNally, Elizabeth A ^a   Schwarcz, Henry P ^a   Botton, Gianluigi A ^a,b   Arsenault, A Larry ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROXYAPATITE; MINERAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MINERAL; BONE STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; CRYOGENIC ION MILLING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DARK FIELD IMAGE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY ANALYSIS; FEMUR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING; MALE; MINERAL STRUCTURE; THICKNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ANALYSIS; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BONE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

VERTEBRATA;

BONE AND BONES; COLLAGEN; DURAPATITE; FEMUR; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; MINERALS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION;

EID: 84855846948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029258     Document Type: Article

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