Structure And Properties Of Strontium-Doped Phosphate-Based Glasses

Main Category: Biology / Biochemistry
Article Date: 02 Oct 2008 - 6:00 PDT

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This paper presented the inclusion of strontium, known with both anti-resorptive and bone forming effects, into phosphate glasses to improve their biocompatibility.

This inclusion of such metal supposed to control the degradation of these glasses i.e. their dissolution rate in body fluids may be further controlled. Moreover, when these glasses degrade, they can also release strontium to encourage bone repair.

It was demonstrated that incorporation of strontium increased the degradation rate of these glasses, and the release of strontium is compositionally dependant. Regardless, the observed increase in their degradation, strontium containing glasses showed better cellular attachment compared to strontium-free glasses.

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