Fleet Carbonated Hydroxyapatite

Materials, Synthesis and Applications
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-981-4463-68-3
Verlag: Pan Stanford Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten

This book introduces recent advances in understanding the crystal structure of carbonate hydroxylapatite (also known as bone mineral), which forms the hard tissue of bones and teeth. Bone mineral is the reservoir for carbon dioxide in the body and maintains the concentration of mineral ions in body fluids at homeostasis. The detailed structure of bone mineral has remained obscure more than 80 years after publication of the basic apatite structure, due to the nanoscale size and poor quality of bone mineral crystals. An entirely new approach to the determination of carbonate apatite structures has resulted in a greatly expanded role for the c-axis channel of bone mineral crystals in the control of metabolic acidosis and blood pH.

The book includes chapters on apatite mineralogy and geochemistry, synthesis methods, x-ray structure, infrared spectroscopy, crystal chemistry of carbonate hydroxylapatite, and biological apatites. There are 75 illustrations, 25 tables of data, and 3 appendices. Discussion of the new research is supported by an outline of the theory behind the methods of investigation and reviews of previous research on hydroxylapatite materials, for the benefit of non-specialist students and researchers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleet, Michael E.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Zahnmedizin Zahnmedizin: Chirurgisch & Orthopädisch

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Fleet was educated at Manchester University, U.K., and lectured in mineralogy and geochemistry at The University of Western Ontario until retirement in 2003. He has published extensively in the areas of x-ray crystallography, experimental geochemistry, and ore-mineral geochemistry. Fleet was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996.