Cell interaction with bioactive glasses and ceramics
R.P.K. Penttinen, University of Turku, Finland
Abstract:
This chapter reviews the biochemical and other interactions of cells with bioactive glass (BAG) and related ceramics. In recent years material development has been directed from melted glasses and their composites towards calcium-rich sol-gel glasses. It has also become apparent that for the clinical success of the material, its ‘bioactivity’, the generation of Si-rich, carbonated apatite layers in simulated body fluid, should correlate with favourable reactions in tissues and not only in cultured cells. At the end of the chapter some future aspects are presented, e.g. on the use of bioactive glasses in tissue engineering, gene ...
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