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  • 1
    ISSN: 0021-9304
    Keywords: implant ; titanium ; osteoblasts ; surface roughness ; 1α,25- (OH)2D3 ; differentiation ; local factor ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Surface roughness has been shown to affect differentiation and local factor production of MG63 osteoblast-like cells. This study examined whether surface roughness alters cellular response to circulating hormones such as 1α,25-(OH)2D3. Unalloyed titanium (Ti) disks were pretreated with HF/HNO3 (PT) and then were machined and acid-etched (MA). Ti disks also were sandblasted (SB), sandblasted and acid etched (CA), or plasma sprayed with Ti particles (PS). The surfaces, from smoothest to roughest, were: PT, MA, CA, SB, and PS. MG63 cells were cultured to confluence on standard tissue culture polystyrene (plastic) or the Ti surfaces and then treated for 24 h with either 10-8M or 10-7M 1α,25-(OH)2D3 or vehicle (control). Cellular response was measured by assaying cell number, cell layer alkaline phosphatase specific-activity, and the production of osteocalcin, latent (L) TGFβ, and PGE2. Alkaline phosphatase activity was affected by surface roughness; as the surface became rougher, the cells showed a significant increase in alkaline phosphatase activity. Addition of 1α,25-(OH)2D3 to the cultures caused a dose-dependent stimulation of alkaline phosphatase activity that was synergistic with the effect caused by surface roughness alone. 1α,25-(OH)2D3 also caused a synergistic increase in osteocalcin production as well as local factor (LTGFβ and PGE2) production on the rougher CA, SB, and PS surfaces, but it had no effect on the production on smooth surfaces. The inhibitory effect of surface roughness on cell number was not affected by 1α,25-(OH)2D3 except on the SB surface. 1α,25-(OH)2D3 decreased cell number, increased alkaline phosphatase activity and osteocalcin production, and had no effect on LTGFβ or PGE2 production by MG63 cells grown on tissue culture polystyrene. These data suggest that bone cell response to systemic hormones is modified by surface roughness and that surface roughness increases the responsiveness of MG63 cells to 1α,25-(OH)2D3. They also suggest that the endocrine system is actively involved in normal bone healing around implants. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res, 39, 77-85, 1998.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 0021-9304
    Keywords: implant ; titanium ; osteoblasts ; prostaglandin ; indomethacin ; surface roughness ; 1α,25-(OH)2D3 ; differentiation ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Surface roughness affects proliferation, differentiation (alkaline phosphatase and osteocalcin), local factor production [transforming growth factor (TGFβ) and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2)], and response to 1,25-(OH)2D3 (1,25) of MG63 osteoblast-like cells. In this study, we examined whether the effect of surface roughness on MG63 cells is mediated by prostaglandins produced by the cells. Unalloyed titanium (Ti) disks were pretreated with HF/HNO3 (PT) and then machined and acid-etched (MA). Disks were also coarse grit-sandblasted (SB), coarse grit-sandblasted and acid-etched (CA), or plasma-sprayed with Ti particles (PS). The surfaces, from smoothest to roughest, were PT, MA, CA, SB, and PS. MG63 cells were cultured to confluence on the Ti disks in the presence or absence of 10-7M indomethacin (Indo), a specific inhibitor of cyclooxygenase activity, resulting in decreased prostaglandin production. When the cells reached confluence, cell number, cell layer alkaline phosphatase specific activity (ALPase), and osteocalcin (OC) and latent TGFβ (LTGFβ) production were determined. In addition, confluent cultures which had been grown in the absence of Indo were exposed to 10-7M 1,25, 10-7M Indo, or a combination of the two for 24 h. On the rougher surfaces, cell number was decreased and ALPase, OC, and LTGFβ were increased. When indomethacin was present throughout the culture period, the effect of surface roughness on cell number, OC, and LTGFβ was abolished. ALPase was reduced, but surface roughness-dependent effects were still observed. Addition of indomethacin to confluent cultures for 24 h had no effect on any of the parameters examined, with one exception: Cells cultured on MA surfaces exhibited a more differentiated phenotype. 1,25 increased all parameters examined on SB, CA, and PS surfaces. When indomethacin was added with 1,25, the 1,25-dependent effects on cell number and OC and LTGFβ production were abolished; however, ALPase was unaffected. This indicates that bone cell response to systemic hormones may be modified by implant surface roughness. This effect may be mediated, at least in part, by prostaglandins produced by the same cells. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res, 41, 489-496, 1998.
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 175-190 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: protein-based polymers ; inverse temperature transitions ; hydrophobic-induced pKa shifts ; waters of hydrophobic hydration ; five axioms for protein engineering; microwave dielectric relaxation ; a universal mechanism for biological energy conversion ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Metabolism is the conversion of available energy sources to those energy forms required for sustaining and propagating living organisms; this is simply biological energy conversion. Proteins are the machines of metabolism; they are the engines of motility and the other machines that interconvert energy forms not involving motion. Accordingly, metabolic engineering becomes the use of natural protein-based machines for the good of society. In addition, metabolic engineering can utilize the principles, whereby proteins function, to design new protein-based machines to fulfill roles for society that proteins have never been called upon throughout evolution to fulfill.This article presents arguments for a universal mechanism whereby proteins perform their diverse energy conversions; it begins with background information, and then asserts a set of five axioms for protein folding, assembly, and function and for protein engineering. The key process is the hydrophobic folding and assembly transition exhibited by properly balanced amphiphilic protein sequences. The fundamental molecular process is the competition for hydration between hydrophobic and polar, e.g., charged, residues. This competition determines Tt, the onset temperature for the hydrophobic folding and assembly transition, Nhh, the numbers of waters of hydrophobic hydration, and the pKa of ionizable functions.Reported acid-base titrations and pH dependence of microwave dielectric relaxation data simultaneously demonstrate the interdependence of Tt, Nhh and the pKa using a series of microbially prepared protein-based poly(30mers) with one glutamic acid residue per 30mer and with an increasing number of more hydrophobic phenylalanine residues replacing valine residues. Also, reduction of nicotinamides and flavins is shown to lower Tt, i.e., to increase hydrophobicity.Furthermore, the argument is presented, and related to an extended Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, wherein reduction of nicotinamides represents an increase in hydrophobicity and resulting hydrophobic-induced pKa shifts become the basis for understanding a primary energy conversion (proton transport) process of mitochondria. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:175-190, 1998.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 587-594 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: biotransformation ; membrane bioreactor ; silicone rubber ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: The Membrane Bioreactor for Biotransformations (MBB) is based on the aqueous/organic two-phase system, and uses a tubular silicone rubber membrane to separate the two liquid phases. This avoids the key problem associated with direct contact two-phase processes, specifically, product emulsification. The baker's yeast mediated reduction of geraniol to citronellol was used as a model biotransformation to demonstrate MBB operation. Values for the overall mass transfer coefficient were determined for geraniol, (2.0 × 10-5 ms-1), and for citronellol, (2.1 × 10-5 ms-1) diffusion across the silicone rubber membrane. Using these values, and the specific activity of the biocatalyst (5 nmols-1g biomass-1), a suitable membrane surface area: biomass ratio was determined as 2.4 × 10-3 m2g biomass-1. The bioreactor was operated at this surface area: biomass ratio and achieved a product accumulation rate 90-95% that of a conventional direct contact two-phase system. The slight reduction in product accumulation rate was shown not to be due to mass transfer limitations with respect to reactant delivery or product extraction. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58: 587-594, 1998.
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    Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 17 (1983), S. 59-70 
    ISSN: 0021-9304
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine , Technology
    Notes: Porous high-density polyethylene specimens were implanted in the femurs of mongrel canines. At the end of the residency period (3 or 6 months), the animals were sacrificed and the implants were retrieved. The work-of-fracture of the implant specimens was then determined using the technique of Tattersall and Tappin. The work required to fracture a specimen in three-point bending by controlled crack propagation through a triangular cross section was obtained directly from the load-deflection curve. The area of the resulting fracture surface was measured by macro-photographic techniques, and the work-of-fracture was calculated as work per unit area. The implants were subsequently sectioned and examined microradiographically to determine the extent of bone ingrowth. Bone specimens adjacent to the implants and porous high-density polyethylene controls (no ingrowth) were also tested to determine their work-of-fracture. The results showed that bone adjacent to the implant specimens had a higher work-of-fracture than normal medial, canine femoral bone and was not appreciably different from the composite. The work-of-fracture of porous high-density polyethylene was not significantly increased by an increase in bone infiltration, and this anomalous behavior was attributed to a degradation of the polyethylene during implant residence. Control studies supported this hypothesis.
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    Chichester [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Surface and Interface Analysis 26 (1998), S. 461-470 
    ISSN: 0142-2421
    Keywords: W/TiN/Ti/Si contact structure ; MULSAM ; TEM ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: The W/TiN/Ti/Si contact structures needed for ultra-large-scale integrated circuits have been studied using cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and multi-spectral Auger electron microscopy. Access to the Ti/Si interface for chemical characterization using SEM, Auger and electron energy-loss imaging and spectroscopy has been achieved by using a novel method of bevelled polishing of the silicon substrate material. Cross-sectional TEM was used to calibrate the depth scale in the MULSAM image sets, so allowing measurements of the thicknesses of various interfacial layers and the penetration of the ohmic contacts into the silicon. The TiN layer, providing adhesion of the tungsten as well as acting as a diffusion barrier, appears to have a domed shape, which penetrates the tungsten overlayer to a greater extent in the contact centres. The results of this work, combined with earlier, related, studies, enable a three-dimensional characterization of the bottom and sidewall structures in these contacts. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Fire and Materials 7 (1983), S. 79-88 
    ISSN: 0308-0501
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Surveying , Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
    Notes: There are two major fire processes, an understanding of which is essential for effective fire safety design: (1) the conditions under which a combustible material may become involved in flaming combustion, and (2) the rate at which such a material, once involved, will provide an output of heat, smoke, toxic gases, etc., which can endanger people and property. The first process may be regarded as covering both ignition and spread of fire on materials; its complement is the way in which fire may become extinguished. It is necessary for such processes to bring in a characteristic of the basic combustion reaction which, directly or indirectly, expresses the reactivity of the combustion process. Thus pilot ignition is usually associated with an approximate surface fuel temperature. More basically, it is associated with a critical flow rate of volatiles and a critical heat loss from the flame, the latter being influenced by ambient oxygen and temperatures conditions as well as heat lost and gained by the fuel itself. The most important factor governing the production of dangerous product is the rate at which volatiles first (fuel controlled fires) and later air (air controlled fires) are fed into the flames. The reactivity is of less importance, although it may be one of the factors which control combustion efficiency. In general, the more efficient is the combustion the more heat is produced, but the less smoke and toxic gases are produced. Some of the main advances in the above areas are reviewed in this paper.
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    Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 14 (1983), S. 144-149 
    ISSN: 0377-0486
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Notes: Raman spectra of thallous carbonate have been studied to c. 52 kbar and mid-IR spectra to 36 kbar. Details of the assignment have also been established using single-crystal IR reflectance and Raman spectroscopy. Phase transitions were found near 13 and 38 kbar on the basis of the Raman evidence, thus supporting the earlier conclusions of Meisalo and Kalliomaki based on x-ray powder and optical results. Analysis of possible space group relations between phases III (ambient) and IV showed that IV must be orthorhombic and adopt one of the D2hn groups, where n = 17, 19, 21, 25 or 28. Structural relationships between the phases are discussed.
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    Biopolymers 22 (1983), S. 1489-1498 
    ISSN: 0006-3525
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Empirical force-field calculations and ir and 1H-nmr spectra indicate that five-membered (C5) and seven-membered (C7eq) hydrogen-bonded rings are the preferred conformations of acetyl-L-Phe p-acetyl and p-valeryl anilides in nonpolar media. The C5/C7eq ratio was found to be dependent on the dryness of the solute and the solvent. This fact and the results from conformational-energy calculations suggest that a molecule of water participates in the stabilization of the C7eq conformation.
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    ISSN: 0006-3525
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Biocompatible, biodegradable copolymers of glutamic acid and ethyl glutamate were evaluated for their permeability to proteins ranging in molecular weight from 12,300 to 69,000. The results showed that the copolymers were sufficiently permeable that they could be used for the preparation of implantable, controlled-release systems capable of releasing therapeutic amounts of high-molecular-weight drugs.
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