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ArticleJournal of materials science. Materials in medicine2010

Hydroxyapatite bone substitutes developed via replication of natural marine sponges.

Eoin Cunningham, Nicholas Dunne, Gavin Walker, Christine Maggs, Ruth Wilcox, Fraser Buchanan

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Article in Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Cuttlebone as a Marine-Derived Material for Preparing Bone Grafts.Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.) · 2018
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  8. Calcium Orthophosphate-Based Bioceramics.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2013
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6 authors.

Eoin CunninghamSchool of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, Ashby Institute, Belfast, UK. ecunningham07@qub.ac.uk
Nicholas Dunne
Gavin Walker
Christine Maggs
Ruth Wilcox
Fraser Buchanan

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The application of synthetic cancellous bone has been shown to be highly successful when its architecture mimics that of the naturally interconnected trabeculae bone it aims to replace. The following investigation demonstrates the potential use of marine sponges as precursors in the production of ceramic based tissue engineered bone scaffolds. Three species of natural sponge, Dalmata Fina (Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, Adriatic Sea), Fina Silk (Spongia zimocca, Mediterranean) and Elephant Ear (Spongia agaricina, Caribbean) were selected for replication. A high solid content (80 %wt), low viscosity (126 mPas) hydroxyapatite slurry was developed, infiltrated into each sponge species and subsequently sintered, producing a scaffold structure that replicated pore architecture and interconnectivity of the precursor sponge. The most promising of the ceramic tissue engineered bone scaffolds developed, Spongia agaricina replicas, demonstrated an overall porosity of 56-61% with 83% of the pores ranging between 100 and 500 microm (average pore size 349 microm) and an interconnectivity of 99.92%.

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AnimalsBone SubstitutesDurapatiteMaterials TestingParticle SizePoriferaPorosityReplica TechniquesTissue EngineeringBone SubstitutesDurapatite

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