UNLABELLED To understand early mineralization events, we studied living murine calvarial tissue by Raman spectroscopy using fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2)-soaked porous beads. We detected increased levels of a transient phase resembling octacalcium phosphate in sutures undergoing premature suture closure. INTRODUCTION Several calcium phosphates have been postulated as the earliest inorgani...

Background The Hospital practices the Clinical Governance approach to ensure high standards of care and to continuously improve the quality of services. One purpose is to produce and to apply Organizational and Clinical Procedures (OCP), based on the best available evidence and the local contest and organization, to manage critical patients in the Emergency Department (ED). Annually, about 50.0...

OBJECTIVES To confirm the downregulation of PTGER4 mRNA in the conjunctiva of Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN) and ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP) patients and to examine the expression of its EP4 protein in the conjunctival epithelium of patients with various ocular surface disorders. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS We performed quantita...

As the population ages worldwide, importance of maintaining metabolism skeletal system becomes increasingly important. The skeleton is core locomotor and oral structure. Moreover, infection control an essential part orthopedic surgery. This paper investigates new bone substitutes fabricated by ionic substitution method leading to octacalcium phosphate (OCP) with excellent contact antibacterial ...

Most aerobic photosynthetic organisms have enough light-harvesting capacity so that on bright sunny days their photosynthesis is saturated for the major part of the day (1, 2). Early on in such sunny days the capacity of the reaction centers to process the absorbed solar energy is exceeded. The excess absorbed photons are potentially very dangerous. For example, if the chlorophyll-excited singl...

The spherical porous granules of octacalcium phosphate (OCP) and hydroxyapatite (HA) have the potential for applications in scaffolds bone regeneration. alpha-tricalcium were immersed a pH 5.0 buffer solution that contained 0.1 mM ascorbic acid (AscP), an osteogenesis-promoting drug, at 60 °C. This resulted fabrication AscP-loaded HA/OCP granules. OCP HA phases concentrated surface interior gra...