Wear debris characterization and corresponding biological response: Artificial hip and knee joints

Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 980-1016

  Nine, Md J ^a   Choudhury, Dipankar ^a,b   Hee, Ay Ching ^a   Mootanah, Rajshree ^c   Osman, Noor Azuan Abu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological response; Isolation; Morphology; Nano toxicity; Wear debris

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894791279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma7020980     Document Type: Review

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