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    Calcified tissue international 27 (1979), S. 75-82 
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Proteoglycans ; Hydroxyapatite ; Amorphous calcium phosphate ; Nucleation ; Calcification
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    Notes: Summary Well-characterized bovine nasal proteoglycan A1 fraction (aggregate) and proteoglycan D1 fraction (subunit) have been shown to be effective inhibitors of hydroxyapatite (HA) formation in two in vitro test systems: (a) the transformation of amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) to crystalline HA, and, (b) the direct precipitation of HA from low-concentration calcium phosphate solutions. A1 or D1 in solution slowed the transformation kinetics in system (a) without affecting the time to the onset of conversion. In system (b), A1 or D1 in solution increased the time to the onset of HA formation without affecting the HA formation kinetics. In both test systems A1 was a more effective inhibitor than D1, although the difference was not great. In both systems the inhibitory effect was proportional to the A1 or D1 solution concentration. The action of solutions of low and high molecular weight neutral dextrans on both test systems showed that high molecular weight and/or extended spatial molecular conformation has a much stronger correlation with inhibitory ability than solution viscosity. Proteoglycans have been implicated as playing a role in regulating biological mineralization particularly in the epiphyseal growth plate. Our study suggests that just enzymatic cleavage of aggregate into subunit is not sufficient to allow mineralization to occur, since we find that D1 itself is a potent inhibitor of HA formation. Further degradation and/or removal of D1 appears to be necessary for calcification to take place.
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    Calcified tissue international 27 (1979), S. 83-88 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Calcium-phospholipid-phosphate complexes ; Diphosphonates
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    Notes: Summary The diphosphonates disodium ethane-1-hydroxy-1, 1-diphosphonate (EHDP) and disodium dichloromethylene diphosphonate (Cl2MDP) prevent hydroxyapatite (HA) formation in metastable calcium phosphate solutions, induced by calcium-phospholipid-phosphate complexes and by the acidic phospholipids phosphatidyl serine and phosphatidyl inositol. The diphosphonates appear to act not only as HA crystal poisons but also as surfactants which probably change the nature of the lipid micelle and the charge and conformational properties of the lipid molecules. The surfactants sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and Non-Idet P-40 (NP-40), like the diphosphonates, prevent HA formation by the acidic phospholipids and complexed lipids, but do not act as HA surface poisons. The lipid surfactant lyso-phosphatidyl serine did not induce HA formation from solution. The relevance of the ability of the diphosphonates to act as lipid surfactants to the in vivo use of these agents is discussed.
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    Calcified tissue international 29 (1979), S. 163-167 
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    Keywords: Mineralization ; Mollusks ; Organic matrix ; Calcification
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    Notes: Summary DEAE-cellulose ion-exchange chromatography separates soluble organic matrix components of three mollusk shells, each from a different taxonomic class, into analogous subfractions. The proteins of all subfractions are enriched in acidic and polar amino acids. In each chromatogram, however, the subfraction which contains the major portion of total protein also contains the highest concentration of aspartic acid. Thus the major components of the soluble organic matrix are aspartic acid-rich proteins. The identification of these proteins in mollusks, together with the known occurrence of aspartic acid and phosphoserine-rich proteins in vertebrate tooth dentin, emphasizes the fundamental importance of such acidic proteins in the processes of mineralization.
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    Calcified tissue international 29 (1979), S. 251-256 
    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Cathepsin ; Calcification ; Dentinogenesis ; Proteoglycans
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    Notes: Summary Cathepsin D was purified from rat liver using a new affinity chromatographic method, based on the coupling to the specific inhibitor pepstatin. This preparation was used for the production of specific antibodies from rabbit. The purified IgG fraction was conjugated to horseradish peroxidase in a two-step coupling procedure and used for electron microscopic immunohistochemistry of the odontoblast-predentine region of the rat incisor. Precipitates, indicating the presence of cathepsin D, were seen in the odontoblast, odontoblast process, and in the extracellular unmineralized matrix, the predentine. The observations are discussed in relation to proteoglycan degradation at the mineralization front simultaneous with crystal formation, and in relation to the function of lysosomal enzymes in the turnover of connective tissue.
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    Calcified tissue international 29 (1979), S. 27-32 
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    Keywords: Ca2+-binding glycoprotein ; Pyrophosphatase ; ATPase ; Transphosphorylase ; Calcification
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    Notes: Summary The Ca2+-binding glycoprotein isolated from preosseous cartilage shows also alkaline phosphatase activity. The purification procedure indicates that the enzyme is inhibited in crude extract and conceivably in the intact tissue; the activity may be controlled by the proteoglycans present in the matrix. Other substrates are hydrolyzed by the purified enzyme in addition top-nitrophenylphosphate; the highest specific activity was measured with ATP and pyrophosphate (PPi) at pH 7.5 and 9.0 Mg2+ induces an activation of ATP and PPi hydrolysis; Ca2+ activates hydrolysis of ATP but inhibits that of PPi. The glycoprotein shows also transphosphorylase activity,l-serine being the best phosphate acceptor. The release or transfer of Pi catalyzed by the glycoprotein can be an important step in calcium phosphate precipitation.
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    Calcified tissue international 29 (1979), S. 101-105 
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    Keywords: Osteon ; X-ray diffraction ; Pole figures ; Electron microscopy ; Calcification
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    Notes: Summary The X-ray diffraction method based on pole figures has been applied to single osteon samples in order to obtain information about the texture of the inorganic bone fraction and the way it changes during calcification. The osteon samples were cylindrically shaped, with axes corresponding to those of the haversian canals. Selection was carried out according to the degree of calcification and the orientation of collagen bundles and inorganic particles. Osteons at both the initial and final stages of calcification were chosen. Arrangements of fiber bundles and inorganic particles in successive lamellae characteristic of three types of osteons were selected: longitudinal, alternate, and transversal. The results indicate that in all three types of osteons, the long axis of the sample is apparently the only direction of orientation because the transversally oriented crystallites give an isotropic diffuse scattering as would be expected if all the inorganic particles were irregularly oriented around the osteon axis. The number of longitudinally oriented crystallites increases progressively from transversally oriented osteons to alternately and longitudinally oriented ones. The crystallite orientation in an axial direction increases in fully calcified osteons. This last result is in agreement with the electron microscopic finding that the long needle-shaped crystallites covering much more than a major collagen period and measuring 40–45 Å in width increase in number as calcification proceeds.
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    Calcified tissue international 27 (1979), S. 57-64 
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    Keywords: Bone ; Bone formation ; Calcification ; Calcification nodule ; EM
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    Notes: Summary Osteolathyrism has been used as an experimental model for the study of calcification nodules during the mineralization process. Periosteal exostoses developing in osteolathyrism characteristically have spherical basophilic structures (calcification nodules) in the vicinity of developing bone spicules. In thin sections, the nodules were seen scattered between collagen fibers in the intercellular matrix. Collagen fibers did not appear to be present within the nodules but sometimes were packed just outside them. Matrix vesicles were also present in areas of early mineralization. After EDTA decalcification, the majority of the nodules consisted of a fine granular material surrounded by an electron-dense peripheral zone. The peripheral dense zone was occasionally incomplete in small nodules in areas of early mineralization. An electron-dense central area could be observed in the center of the nodules. Evidence has been presented indicating that the calcification nodules arise from smaller mineralization foci, presumably matrix vesicles. The calcification nodules enlarge to approximately 1.0 µm in size, at which point development is slowed or halted allowing the formation of the peripheral dense zone. Although coalescence of nodules was observed, this was more a random event. The further mineralization of the trabeculae was achieved by the calcification of the collagen fibers. The mineralized trabeculae reflected this pattern of nodular and collagenous calcification. It is suggested that this pattern of calcification is characteristic of rapidly developing woven bone.
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    Calcified tissue international 27 (1979), S. 177-185 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Bone ; Glycoprotein ; Golgi ; Osteoblasts
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    Notes: Summary The elaboration of bone matrix glycoprotein by osteoblasts of alveolar bone was investigated by radioautography after the intravenous injection of3H-fucose into young rats. At selected times after injection, animals were sacrificed by intracardiac perfusion and demineralized specimens were prepared for light and electron microscope radioautography. At 5 and 10 min after injection, when the blood fucose level was high, silver grains were restricted to the spheroidal and cylindrical saccules of the Golgi apparatus. At 20 min membrane-limited secretory granules were also labeled. By 35 min, the blood fucose level had dropped and silver grains were detected over the apical cortical cytoplasm, in association with secretory granules located therein. Some grains were present over osteoblast processes and the adjacent prebone matrix. By 4 h most of the silver grains had left the cell. At that time they were observed over prebone, adjacent to osteoblast processes, as well as over the prebone-bone junction where a distinct band of label was noted. In demineralized preparations an electron-dense granular material was present at the prebone-bone junction in association with collagen fibrils. These findings provide evidence that osteoblasts in alveolar bone synthesize fucose-containing glycoprotein and indicate that the addition of3H-fucose occurs in the Golgi apparatus. The glycoprotein passes to the apical cortical cytoplasm by way of membrane-limited secretory granules, is exteriorized, and accumulates at the site where prebone transforms into bone (the prebone-bone junction). Since this is also the site of the calcification front, the deposition of labeled glycoprotein may be related to the deposition of bone mineral.
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    Plant systematics and evolution 131 (1979), S. 169-178 
    ISSN: 1615-6110
    Keywords: Cyanophyceae ; Cyanobacteria ; Stigonemataceae ; Geitleria calcarea Friedmann ; Geitleria floridana Friedmann ; n. sp. ; Calcification ; fine structure of sheath ; scanning electron microscopy ; cave algae ; atmophytic ; nomenclature
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    Notes: Abstract The calcifying cave inhabitant atmophytic blue-green algaGeitleria calcarea is reported from new localities in Florida and in the Cook Islands.—G. floridana n. sp., is described from caves in Florida. The calcified sheath has the shape of a quadratic prism and is built of crystalline acicular subunits about 0.1 µm in diameter. The subunits mostly form a rhombic lattice pattern but in some cases, they are not distinguishable and then the surface of the sheath is smooth.
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    Cell & tissue research 201 (1979), S. 409-422 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Fish scale ; Fine structure ; Calcification ; Fibrillary plate ; Carassius auratus
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    Notes: Summary Electron microscopic investigation of scales of the goldfish Carassius auratus revealed that the lamellae of fibrillary plates contain sheet-like structures composed of vertically oriented collagen fibers embedded in an organic matrix. The fibers (TC fibers) are smaller in diameter (35–45 nm) than those of the lamellae and the matrix is stained intensely with lead citrate. The sheet-like structures as well as the lamellae are formed by fibroblasts located beneath the lamellae. The orientation of the collagen fibers of the sheets and the lamellae seems to be controlled by the orientation of the ridges and invaginations of the surface of the fibroblasts. The fibrillary plate of C. auratus was found to be partially calcified. Calcification was initiated by the deposition of needle-like or flaky crystals of hydroxyapatite in the organic matrix of the sheet-like structure and proceeded into the TC fibers and the matrix region of the lamellae. The potassium pyroantimonate-osmium tetroxide method showed a heavy concentration of calcium in the osteoblasts, fibroblasts, and in the matrix regions of the fibrillary plate. Calcium-containing precipitates were also present in the “hole zone” of the collagen fibers in the lamellae, but the significance of this location in calcification remains to be elucidated.
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    Calcified tissue international 26 (1978), S. 51-59 
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    Keywords: Collagen ; Calcification ; Fluoroapatite ; Nucleation ; Inhibitors
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    Notes: Summary Ca2+ and Pi uptake induced in vitro by a collagenous matrix derived from bovine tendon is inhibited by 1×10−6 to 2×10−5 M NaF and stimulated by 2×10−5 to 2×10−3 M NaF. Fluoride uptake occurs only over the latter concentrtion range. The uptake of Ca2+, Pi, and F−1 progresses toward a limiting extent at which the molar Ca/P and Ca/F values are 1.6 to 1.7 and 4.5 to 5.7, respectively. Although the matrix-bound mineral, previously formed in the absence of NaF, readily undergoes dissolution when exposed to a Ca2+- and P-free medium of pH〈7.4, the bound mineral phase formed in the presence of NaF does not. We conclude that fluoroapatite is the primary matrix-bound mineral. The uptake of fluoride, Ca2+. and Pi by both uncalcified and previously calcified matrices is inhibited by methylenediphosphonate and by phosphonoacetate as is calcification in the absence of NaF. Kinetic studies indicate that formation of a CaP complex precedes the uptake of F−1 and suggest that F−1 and OH−1 compete for interation with the CaP complex during the calcification process. We concluded that fluoroapatite formation induced by the collagenous matrix occurs by a multistep pathway comparable to that proposed previously for hydroxyapatite formation.
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    Calcified tissue international 26 (1978), S. 253-258 
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    Keywords: Ion-exchange resin ; Lead toxicity ; Energy dispersive X-ray analysis ; Calcification ; Trauma
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    Notes: Summary Several heavy metals have direct calcifying effects in connective tissues; most notable among them is lead (Pb), whether administered topically (1) or systemically with local injury (2). The mechanisms of metal-induced soft tissue calcification have been studied by injecting salts of known in vitro calcifying potential into subcutaneous connective tissue (3); of the metals used, only lead and holmium produced an early accumulation of minerals on collagen in vivo. Lead is also claimed to accelerate bone healing in the rabbit leg with no toxic effects (4). Lead-loaded ion-exchange resin beads, implanted into surgically prepared subcutaneous pouches in rats, rapidly induced subcutaneous calcification which has been studied by microradiography and electron-probe microanalysis.
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    Calcified tissue international 25 (1978), S. 145-159 
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    Keywords: Bird egg shell ; Ultrastructure ; Calcification ; Electron diffraction ; Microanalysis
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    Notes: Summary The egg-shell of Japanese quail was studied by several techniques. Semithin sections (1μm thick) of non-decalcified shell were observed by normal and polarized light microscopy. Thin sections of non-decalcified shell, examined by transmission electron microscopy, permitted us to observe the forms and dimensions of crystals of calcite within different layers of the shell: mammilary layer, layer of cones, palissade layer and surface crystal layer. There appears to be two distinct zones in the layer of cones as well as in the superficial crystal layer. Electron microdiffraction revealed the orientation of calcite crystals in the columns. Some crystal defects (twins?) were described and the possibility of their artefactual formation during ultramicrotomy is discussed. Localization of Ca, Mg, P and S were made by X-ray microanalysis of semithin sections. This technique shows that shell membranes, and chiefly the true cuticle, are also mineralized but, in these layers, minerals are not crystallized. Otherwise the distribution of Mg is not uniform throughout the shell thickness; it is less concentrated in the external zone of the layer of cones. These results together with observation of developing shells by scanning electron microscopy allowed us to propose a scheme for shell organization of the quail egg. This organization was related with decalcification which occurs during hatching.
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    Calcified tissue international 25 (1978), S. 133-143 
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    Keywords: Osteon ; X-Ray diffraction ; Electron microscopy ; Calcification
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    Notes: Summary To obtain information on the changes in the inorganic bone fraction during calcification, low- and wide-angle X-ray diffraction techniques and electron microscopy have been applied to single osteon samples. The samples were cylindrically shaped and their axes corresponded to the axes of the Haversian canals. The selection was made according to the degree of calcification and the orientation of collagen bundles and inorganic particles. Osteons at both the initial and final stages of calcification were chosen. Arrangements of fiber bundles and inorganic particles in successive lamellae characteristic of three types of osteon were selected, that is, longitudinally structured osteons, transversely structured osteons, and alternately structured osteons. The results indicate that in osteonic lamellar bone there are two types of inorganic particles: (1) granules arranged in linear or needle-shaped entities with maximum width 40–45 Å, which are regularly distributed at the level of the main band of the collagen fibrils where their maximum length reaches the length of the main band itself; that is, about 400 Å; and (2) very long crystallites, with a diameter of 40–45 Å, which grow with their crystallographicc-axis parallel to the collagen fibrils and cover much more than a major collagen period.
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    Calcified tissue international 26 (1978), S. 267-269 
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    Keywords: Chondroid tissue ; Calcification ; Opilions ; Chelicerates ; Electron microprobe
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    Notes: Summary Extracellular masses of crystals are present in the endosternite of certain opilions (Phalangium, Odiellus, andLeiobunum). X-ray spectrography and secondary-ion analysis have shown them to be rich in calcium but poor in phosphorus and other elements. The associated anion has not been identified, but is most probably organic in nature and perhaps an oxalate.
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    Calcified tissue international 25 (1978), S. 161-168 
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    Keywords: Tendon ; Calcification ; Collagen ; Inhibitors ; Proteoglycans
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    Notes: Summary Bovine and human tendon tissue do not induce calcification in vitro. However, extraction of those tissues with 3% Na2HPO4 converts them to calcifiable matrices. The supernatant fraction derived from the extraction contains a nondialyzable, perchloric acid soluble component that inhibits calcification of the extracted matrix. This inhibitory substance is characterized by a molecular weight in the range of 85,000–100,000. Exposure to pronase or hyaluronidase did not alter the inhibitory potency but did render the inhibitor dialyzable. Commercial sources of hyaluronic acid, chondroitin-6-sulfate, chrondroitin-4-sulfate, dermatan sulfate, heparin and lysozyme did not inhibit calcification of the extracted matrix. Phosvitin, a phosphoglycoprotein is a potent inhibitor. Although phosvitin and the tendon extract also inhibit calcification of previously calcified matrix, they have no detectable effect on the rate of decalcification. We conclude that the mechanism of inhibition is characterized by a degree of specificity and that phosvitin and a macromolecular component of tendon tissue blocks conversion of an intermediate matrix-bound CaP complex to crystalline apatite. It seems reasonable that the tendon inhibitor could function in situ and possibly in vivo to control calcification of tendon tissue.
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    Cell & tissue research 192 (1978), S. 249-266 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Calcification ; Calcite ; Collagen ; Pennatulid
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    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'axe squelettique de Veretillum cynomorium se compose d'une matrice fibrillaire de nature collagène, minéralisée par de la calcite. Le présent article fournit des données ultrastructurales et cristallographiques quant à l'organisation de cette structure et au dépôt du minéral dans la matrice. La pointe inférieure de l'axe constitue un gradient de calcification entre l'extrémité non minéralisée et le corps entièrement calcifié. Les dépôts initiaux de calcite, parfois associés à des débris cellulaires, donnent naissance à des nodules qui s'accroissent de façon rayonnée, par bourgeonnement de plusieurs lobes. Ces nodules fusionnent et forment le coeur de l'axe dont la croissance ultérieure en diamètre, se réalise par le développement de colonnes irrégulières de calcite à partir des nodules externes du coeur. Les surfaces minéralisées présentent une microarchitecture qui peut être reliée aux axes cristallographiques de la calcite. Les relations entre le minéral et la matrice ont particulièrement retenues notre attention. Les fibres de collagène, enrobées par la calcite et non imprégnées par elle, n'interviennent jamais comme initiateur de nucléation du minéral. L'orientation cristallographique ultérieure de la calcite est aussi totalement indépendante de la matrice.
    Notes: Summary The axial skeletal rod of Veretillum cynomorium consists of a fibrillar collagenous matrix calcified with calcite. The present paper describes ultrastructural and crystallographic details of its organization and deposition. At the inferior end of the rod is a calcification gradient between the noncalcified tip and the rest of the axis. Initial mineral deposits, which are sometimes associated with cell debris, give rise to calcitic nodules which enlarge by the radial growth of several lobes. These nodules fuse and form the core of the axis. Subsequent increase in diameter of the rod involves the radial development of irregular columns of calcite which arise from the peripheral nodules. Mineral surfaces exhibit a distinctive microarchitecture which can be related to the predominantly c-axis parallel growth of the calcite. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between mineral and matrix. The collagen fibrils, embedded in the calcite but never impregnated with it, are not responsible for the initial nucleation of mineral. The crystallographic orientation of the calcite also appears to be independent of these fibrils.
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    Calcified tissue international 22 (1977), S. 159-172 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Artery ; Gastropod ; Spherule
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    Notes: Abstract The anterior aorta and major arteries of the land pulmonate snailAnguispira alternata have large calcium deposits in their walls. These deposits occur inside spherule cells, which line the walls of these vessels. The calcium occurs as amorphous calcium carbonate, in the form of intracellular spherules having alternating layers of organic and inorganic material. The spherule cells appear to be degenerating connective tissue cells; they are characterized by large numbers of spherules and by a cytoplasm which is totally empty except for a nucleus, scattered glycogen particles and a few membrane remnants. The injection of45Ca into the foot of the snail results in rapid incorporation of this calcium into the spherule cells. Although calcium-containing spherules are now known from a wide variety of invertebrate tissues, they have not been previously recorded from arterial walls. The physiologic significance of these deposits is not known.
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    Calcified tissue international 23 (1977), S. 33-38 
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    Keywords: Cathepsind ; Calcification ; Odontoblasts ; Dentinogenesis
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    Notes: Summary The presence of an acid proteinase with a high activity has been demonstrated in isolated odontoblast-predentine material from dentinogenically active rat incisors. The enzyme was identified as cathepsind (EC 3.4.23.5). The possible significance of the enzymatic degradation of proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans in the course of the calcification process is discussed.
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    Calcified tissue international 22 (1977), S. 1-7 
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    Keywords: Matrix vesicles ; Alkaline phosphatase ; Pyrophosphatase ; ATPase ; Calcification
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    Notes: Abstract Some of the characteristics of the pyrophosphatase and ATPase activities studied in isolated cartilage matrix vesicles were found to be similar to those already reported for the solubilized and purified bone alkaline phosphatase. Thus, the pH optimum of the pyrophosphatase activity responded similarly to changes in the concentration of Mg2+, Ca2+, and PPi. Further, the ATPase activity was not activated by Ca2+ in the presence of an optimal Mg2+ concentration. It is proposed that a function of the alkaline phosphatase of matrix vesicles in vivo is to hydrolyze the substrates PPi, ADP, and ATP, which are known inhibitors of calcium phosphate precipitation.
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    Calcified tissue international 22 (1977), S. 129-135 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Connective tissue ; Skeletal muscle
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    Notes: Abstract The subcutaneous injection into mice of small quantities of lead salts resulted in calcification of the dorsal fascia. Other reputed calcergens failed to produce a similar reaction. However, the injection of Zn Cl2 and KMn O4 in high doses caused damage to, and subsequent calcification of the panniculus carnosus muscle.
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    Calcified tissue international 22 (1977), S. 231-241 
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    Keywords: Alkaline phosphatase ; Calcification ; Cartilage ; Enamel organ ; Odontoblasts
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    Notes: Abstract The enzyme alkaline phosphatase (AP) (EC 3.1.3.1) in three different calcification areas was studied by means of a spectrophotometric micro method using p-nitrophenylphosphate as a substrate. Rat maxillary incisor odontoblasts and enamel organ from the zones of matrix formation and maturation and tissue from rabbit metatarsal cartilage were allowed to react with the substrate in glycine-NaOH buffer at room temperature. The reaction was found to be linear for a minimum of 20 min. The pH optima for AP from these tissues were in the pH range of 10.0–10.3. In order to compare AP from the four calcification areas different parameters were studied. Heating at 56°C or 60°C for varying times revealed that the enzymes were almost completely inactivated after 10 min. Mg2+ ions activated the enzymes by about 25% at concentrations of 2.5 mM (enamel organ 1.25 mM); while only higher concentrations of Mg2+ had an inactivating effect, Ca2+ and PO 4 3− ions were inactivating at varying concentrations. F− ions show no effect on AP activity at concentrations below 250 mM (enamel organ 125 mM) but caused inactivation of the enzymes at about 50% at 1 M. EDTA was found to be a very effective AP inactivator at concentrations above 0.06 mM, whereas urea did not noticeably affect the enzyme reactions at concentrations below 1 M. At higher concentrations, inactivation was observed. In order to determine AP localization in the epiphyseal plate successive 40-μm-thick, freeze-sectioned slices were analyzed. The activity was highest nearest the zone of cartilage calcification and decreased towards the reserve cell zone. It was concluded that the same AP isoenzyme is present in these quite different calcification loci.
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    Calcified tissue international 23 (1977), S. 259-269 
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    Keywords: Amorphous calcium phosphate ; Apatite ; Calcification ; Octacalcium phosphate
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    Notes: Summary The maturation of calcium phosphate crystals formed by the conversion of spontaneously precipitated amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) was studied in aqueous media at temperatures ranging from 20° to 37°. Reaction pH was kept at 7.4 with either Hepes buffer or by the pH-stat addition of base. Reaction kinetics were followed by monitoring solution calcium and total phosphate, and, in the pH-stat controlled reaction, by recording the amount of KOH needed to maintain pH. Reaction products were examined chemically and by X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microcopy. The first crystals to form deviated markedly from apatite in morphology, composition, structure, and solubility. They were extremely thin and flaky in appearance, had a low Ca/P molar ratio (1.4), contained an appreciable amount of acid phosphate (16%), and had an exceptionally largea-axis (10.5 Å vs. 9.4 Å for apatite). With maturation, the crystals became thicker but smaller in lateral dimensions, more apatitelike in structure and composition, and less soluble. However, this ripening of the crystals was accompanied by unusual inflections in the solution Ca and total PO4 curves, and, in the case of the pH-stat experiments, in the OH consumption profiles as well. These anomalous post-ACP solution changes suggest that a phase change had taken place during crystal maturation. Although the observed structural and compositional changes are not inconsistent with the perfection of an initially defective apatite, the changes in crystal morphology and the anomalous behavior of the reaction solution may more accurately reflect a conversion of the ACP first into an OCP-like crystalline phase which subsequently hydrolyzes into apatite.
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    Calcified tissue international 24 (1977), S. 47-57 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Crystal growth ; Hydroxyapatite ; Kinetics ; Precipitation
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    Notes: Summary The kinetics of precipitation of hydroxyapatite, HA, was studied by seeding dilute supersaturated solutions with well characterized HA crystals. In solutions having initial degrees of supersaturation comparable to those present in human serum, the precipitation rates were related to the thermodynamic driving force (degree of supersaturation with respect to HA) and not to the solution composition. The following relationshipR 0=KA(DS) n , whereR 0=initial precipitation rate, A=amount of seeds, DS=degree of supersaturation, and K andn are parameters obtained from the experimental data, was found to apply over a DS range of 6.6×1010 to 3.3×106. These observations are consistent with the occurrence of a simple growth process on the HA seeds. No evidence for the formation of discrete calcium phosphates other than HA was detected. The Ca/P molar ratio of the precipitating phase, calculated from solution compositions, was invariably higher than that expected for HA; this result is shown to be consistent with an initial adsorption phenomenon. Anomalous kinetic behavior was observed at low seeding levels and may relate to the surface phenomenon described. It is concluded that, most probably, under physiological conditions, formation and remineralization of hard tissues occur through the reported crystal growth process.
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    Cell & tissue research 167 (1976), S. 37-47 
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    Keywords: Scale ; Tilapia ; Calcification ; Ultrastructure
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    Notes: Summary The scales of Tilapia are surrounded by an envelope of scleroblasts responsible for the production of layers of collagen that constitute the bulk of the scale. The scleroblasts adjoining the lateral face of the oldest scale region gradually atrophy. New collagen layers are deposited against the inner face of the scale, the adjoining scleroblasts showing evidence of high metabolic activity. Calcification occurs by inotropic deposition of crystals alongside the fibres. There is no sharp demarcation between calcified and non-calcified scale regions, a calcification front gradually moving towards newly formed collagen layers. It is felt that fish scales should be considered as calcified derivatives of dermal collagen layers.
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    Cell & tissue research 173 (1976), S. 349-356 
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    Keywords: Finrays ; Tilapia ; Ultrastructure ; Calcification
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    Notes: Summary Light and electron-microscopic studies were carried out on the fins of the fish Tilapia mossambica (Peters). A detailed description is presented of the different skeletal components comprising the finrays. The mode of development of the hemisegments appears in several ways similar to that of fish scales. Each hemisegment is contained by an envelope of scleroblasts which secrete collagen fibres in a unipolar fashion. Calcification takes place as a result of deposition of hydroxyapatite-like crystals between the collagen fibres. However, the orientation of these fibres is not as regular as that of the fibres occurring in scales.
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    Cell & tissue research 168 (1976), S. 277-287 
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    Keywords: Proteoglycans ; Odontoblasts, predentin, dentin ; Calcification ; Electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary The localization of proteoglycans in the predentin of the rat incisor was investigated by ultrastructural histochemistry. Ruthenium red stained the cell coat of the odontoblasts as well as intracellular vesicles. There was also a staining of the extracellular matrix, but not of collagen fibers in the predentin. Treatment with the enzyme hyaluronidase prior to staining with ruthenium red abolished the staining of the vesicles and the extracellular matrix but not that of the cell coat. Bismuth nitrate and phosphotungstic acid gave similar staining of odontoblast vesicles and extracellular matrix. It is likely that the stained structures contain proteoglycans. The importance of these proteoglycans and their ultrastructural localization are discussed in relation to intracellular transport and the calcification process.
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    Cell & tissue research 163 (1975), S. 81-97 
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    Keywords: Medullary bone ; Bone ultrastructure ; Bone histochemistry ; Calcification ; Organic-inorganic relationships
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    Notes: Summary Folliculin administration to pigeons stimulates the development of medullary bone in marrow spaces of the femora and other long bones. It is a specialized osseus tissue not devoted to mechanical functions and which is rapidly reabsorbed before egg-shell formation. Medullary bone is formed and reabsorbed in the same way as other types of bone. Consequently, because of its very rapid rate of formation and resorption, it represents an ideal tissue for studying osteoblastic, osteoclastic and osteocytic activity, and the calcification process. Medullary bone is deeply stained by PAS, Alcian blue and colloidal iron and is metachromatic after toluidine blue staining. This shows that its interfibrillary ground substance contains relatively high amounts of glycoproteins and acid proteoglycans. Calcification initially occurs in matrix vesicles (or calcifying globules) which are very numerous between the collagen fibrils of the osteoid tissue, and successively spreads into the surrounding interfibrillar matrix. Here, the crystals are closely related to thin, filament-like organic structures which seem to be components of ground substance proteoglycans. These findings confirm that in medullary bone, as in other types of calcifying tissue, the inorganic substance is initially laid down within calcifying globules and is successively closely related to organic, non-collagenous, filamentous organic structures (crystal ghosts) which probably represent a framework for calcium salt deposition.
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    Cell & tissue research 159 (1975), S. 233-243 
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    Keywords: Odontoblasts ; Predentine ; Dentine ; Calcification ; Scanning electron microscopy
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    Notes: Summary A scanning electron microscopic technique was used to investigate the surface structure of dentinogenically active odontoblasts. Thin pieces of rat incisors were fixed, rapidly frozen, freezedried at -70° C and fractured to expose new surfaces prior to examination in the SEM. Differences in the appearance of odontoblastic cell surfaces were seen, with the most extensive ridge formations at the distal part of the sides of the odontoblasts. The predentine area displayed a spongy structure which contrasted to the compact appearance of dentine. Results are discussed in relation to previous studies at the light microscopic and transmission electron microscopic levels.
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    Calcified tissue international 3 (1969), S. 38-54 
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    Keywords: Epiphyseal cartilage ; Calcification ; Apatite crystals ; Organic/Inorganic relationships
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les rapports entre composants organiques et inorganiques du cartilage ont été étudiés au niveau des épiphyses tibiales chez des rats de 5 jours et au niveau des jonctions costo-chondrales chez des cobayes d'un mois. Voici les principaux résultats auxquels on est parvenu: (a) Dans les zones où la calcification s'amorce les cristallites d'apatite sont susceptibles d'être facilement éliminés des coupes en araldite et en glycol methacrylate (GMA) après traitement pendant une heure par une solution d'acide formique au 2%. (b) Les zones décalcifiées sont douées d'une faible densité aux électrons et vont exemptes d'une structure quelconque. Seulement la fixation à l'osmium peut révéler du matériel amorphe. (c) Indépendemment du fixateur et du moyen d'inclusion, les coupes décalcifiées, traitées par l'acétate d'uranyl et/ou par le citrate de plomb, montrent de fines structures allongées dont l'aspect est semblable à celui des cristallites. (d) Ces structures ainsi qu'un fond dense interposé prennent l'acide phosphotungstique (PTA) dans les coupes en GMA, une méthode celle-ci qui met en évidence les polysaccharides. (e) Le fond dense ne prend plus le PTA après traitement par la hyaluronidase et en même temps les structures semblables au cristallites apparaissent plus faibles. Après traitement par l'acétate d'uranyl et le citrate de plomb, l'attaque par la hyaluronidase ne produit aucune modification appréciable. Au contraire l'aspect des structures semblables aux cristallites apparait modifié par la digestion à la papaïne. (f) Quand la décalcification à l'EDTA précéde l'enrobage, des amas de matériel fibrillaire se mettent en évidence dans les zones où la calcification s'était amorcée. L'ensemble de ces résultats permet d'établir la nature organique des structures semblables au cristallites et porte aussi à admettre que celles-ci soient formées par de fins filaments cylindriques (digérés par la papaïne) entourés, et probablement engainés par del polysaccharides (digérés par la hyaluronidase et prennant le PTA dans les coupes en GMA).
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen den organischen und inorganischen Substanzen des verkalkenden Knorpels wurden in der tibialen und femuralen Epiphyse 5 Tage alter Ratten und in den Rippen 1 Monat alter Meerschweinchen untersucht. Die Hauptergebnisse waren: a) Die Hydroxyapatitkristalle der Frühverkalkungszonen können in Araldit- wie auch in Glycolmethylacrilatschnitten (GMA) mit einer lstündigen Behandlung durch 1% ige Ameisensäure leicht entfernt werden. b) Die entkalkten Zonen haben eine sehr niedrige Elektronendichte und enthalten keine sichtbaren Festkörper. Nach Fixierung mit Osmiumsäure kann man darin ein formloses Material erkennen. c) Eine Färbung der Schnitte mit Uranacetat und Bleicitrat, welche von den Fixier- und Einbettungsmitteln nicht beeinträchtigt wird, zeigt feine, längliche Körper (“Kristallgeister”) an, welche morphologisch den Kristallen von Hydroxyapatit gleichen. d) Die Färbung der GMA-Schnitte mit Phosphowolframsäure (PWS), eine Methode welche Polysaccharide anzeigt, hob diese “Kristallgeister” besonders hervor und demonstrierte auch eine dichte dazwischenliegende Grundsubstanz. e) Diese Substanz ist nach Behandlung mit Hyaluronidase nicht mehr färbbar mit PWS; die Färbbarkeit der “Kristallgeister” wird dabei jedoch nur verringert. Die Hyaluronidasebehandlung verändert die Uranacetat- und Bleicitratfärbung nicht. Die Feinstruktur der “Kristallgeister” wird durch Papainbehandlung sehr angegriffen. f) Falls die Schnitte vor dem Einbetten mit EDTA entkalkt werden, können Faserbündel in den Frühzonen der Verkalkung nachgewiesen werden. Diese Ergebnisse bestätigen die organische Natur der “Kristallgeister”. Sie beweisen auch, daß dieselben aus feinen Proteinstäbchen bestehen (verdaulich in Papain) und von Polysacchariden umgeben und vielleicht auch überzogen sind (verdaulich in Hyaluronidase und anfärbbar mit PWS).
    Notes: Abstract The organic/inorganic relationships in calcifying cartilage have been studied in tibialfemoral epiphyses of 5-day-old rats and in costochondral junctions of 1-month-old guinea pigs. The main results are: (a) Apatite crystallites in areas of early cartilage calcification are easily removed from araldite and glycol methacrylate (GMA) sections by 1-hour treatment with 2% formic acid. (b) The decalcified areas have a very low electron density and do not contain recognizable structures. Only after osmium fixation can an amorphous material be found in them. (c) Independently from the fixative and the embedding medium, staining decalcified areas with uranyl acetate and/or lead citrate reveals thin, elongated structures (crystallite ghosts) similar in shape to apatite crystallites. (d) These crystallite ghosts and a dense background are stained by phosphotungstic acid (PTA) in GMA sections, a method which reveals polysaccharides. (e) The dense background is no longer stained by PTA after hyaluronidase digestion and the stainability of the crystallite ghosts is reduced. After uranyl acetate/lead citrate staining there are no recognizable changes due to hyaluronidase. But, on the other hand, the fine structure of the crystallite ghosts is modified by papain digestion. (f) Clusters of fibrillar material are present in the areas of early calcification when EDTA decalcification is carried out before embedding the specimens. These results confirm the organic nature of the crystallite ghosts and suggest that they are formed by thin, rod-like protein/like structures (digested by papain) surrounded, and probably sheathed, by acid polysaccharides (digested by hyaluronidase and stained by PTA in GMA sections).
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    Calcified tissue international 4 (1969), S. 39-47 
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    Keywords: Dehydroepiandrosterone ; Calcification ; Embryo ; Tissue Culture ; Bone
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les modes d'utilisation de glucose, le contenu de calcium et d'hydroxyproline et la densité cellulaire du perioste de les os frontaux d'embryons de poulet de 12 et 13 jours de developpement, cultivés sur coagulum de plasma, se presentant différenment à chaque âge. Cultivés avec sulfate de déhydroèpiandrostérone en concentration 1 mM, les frontaux de 12 jours montrent un synthese augmentée du matrice osseuse, celle de 13 jours se calcifient à une vélocité significativement plus grande que celle des os contôles. Le degré de calcification au quatrième jour de culture measuré par la relation calcium/hydroxyproline, suit un fonction lineáire avec le logarithme des doses de sulfate de dehydroepiandrostérone employées (0.5, 1,0 et 2,0 mM). Les renseignements obtenus indiquent que les frontaux de 13 jours, cultivés “in vitro” constituent modeles experimentaux appropriés pour étudier l'effet des androgénes sur le tissue osseux.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Stirnbeine von Hühnerembryonen an ihrem 12. und 13. Entwicklungstag entnommen und in vitro kultiviert zeigen verschiedene Arten der Glucoseverwertung der Periostzellendichte, des Calcium- und Hydroxyprolingehaltes. Wird Dehydroepiandrosteronsulfat dem Medium in einer 1 mM-Konzentration zugegeben, so beteiligen sich die 12tägigen Stirnbeine vorwiegend an der Knochengewebesynthese, während die 13tägigen signifikant stärker verkalken als die Kontrollen. Gemessen an der Calcium/hydroxyprolin Ratio bildet die Verkalkung der 13tägigen Stirnbeine eine lineare Funktion mit den Logarithmen der verwendeten Dosen von Dehydroepiandrosteronsulfat (0,5, 1,0 und 2,0 mM). Das in vitro kultivierte 13tägige Stirnbein schein ein geeignetes Experimentiermodell zur Studie der Dehydroepiandrosteronsulfatwirkung auf das Knochengewebe zu sein, weil es das grundlegende Phänomen (erhöhte Verkalkung) wiedergibt, welches man auch bei mit Androgenen behandelten Menschen und Tieren beobachtet.
    Notes: Abstract Chick embryo frontal bones at 12 and 13 days of development cultivatedin vitro exhibit different patterns of glucose utilization, periosteal cellular density and calcium and hydroxyproline content. When dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate is added to the medium at a concentration 1 mM, 12-day frontals engage primarily in osteoid tissue synthesis while 13-day frontals calcify at a significantly greater rate than controls. Measured with the ratio calcium/hydroxyproline, the calcification of 13-day frontals follows a linear function with the logarithm of the doses of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate employed (0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 mM). The 13-day frontal bone cultivatedin vitro seems to be an adequate experimental model for the study of the effects of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate on bone tissue because it reproduces the basic phenomenon (increased calcification) observed in man and animals treated with androgens.
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    Calcified tissue international 4 (1969), S. 260-268 
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    Keywords: Cartilage ; Histochemistry ; Staining ; Protein ; Polysaccharide ; Calcification
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Des coupes de cartilage épiphysaire frais de jeunes rats, effectuées à la main, sont colorées à pH=4,5 dans des solutions à 0,01% de divers colorants cationiques, appartenant aux groupes de la thiazine, oxazine, azine, triphénylméthane, acridine, et phthallocyanine. Les granules intracellulaires métachromatiques, mises en évidence antérieurement par le bleu de toluidine, sont également identifiées à l'aide de l'azur A, le bleu de méthylène et le bleu de crésyl. Les granules se colorent moins bien à la thionine, le rouge neutre, la safranine O, le bleu de toluylène et l'acridine orange. Dans les conditions utilisées, la matrice de la zone de réserve et la matrice de la zone hypertrophique inférieure (en voie de calcification) se colorent, alors que les matrices des zones prolifératives et hypertrophiques supérieures ne prennent pas les colorants. La gallocyanine, le violet cristal, la fuchsine basique, l'azocarmin B, le bleu de gallamine et la bleu alcian ne se colorent pas ou donnent des réactions colorées différentes de celles décrites ci-dessus. Il semble que le pK et le poids moléculaire des colorants jouent un rôle important, mais ils ne paraissent pas être les seuls facteurs intervenant dans la coloration des granules. Un changement, lié à la calcification, semble intervenir au niveau du matériel métachromatique (probablement des polysaccharides protéiques), aussi bien dans la matrice que les cellules cartilagineuses épiphysaires.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Handpräparierte Schnitte von frischem Epiphysenknorpel junger Ratten wurden bei einem pH von 4,5 in 0,01% igen Lösungen verschiedener kationischer Farbstoffe folgender Klassen gefärbt: Thiazin, Oxazin, Azin, Triphenylmethan, Acridin und Phthalocyanin. Die intracellulären β-und γ-metachromatischen Granula, erstmals mit Toluidinblau im frischen Gewebe nachgewiesen, konnten auch gut mit Azur A, Methylenblau und Brillantkresylblau dargestellt werden. Die Granula konnten ebenfalls, aber weniger gut, mit Thionin, Neutralrot, Safranin D, Toluylenblau und Acridinorange gefärbt werden. Unter diesen Färbungsbedingungen werden die inaktive Matrixzone und die untere hypertrophische (verkalkende) Matrixzone angefärbt, während die proliferative und die obere hypertrophische Matrixzone sich nicht färben. Gallocyanin, Kristallviolett, basisches Fuchsin, Azokarmin B, Gallaminblau und Alzianblau färbten entweder gar nicht, oder gaben ein anderes als das obenbeschriebene Färbemuster. Es wird vorgeschlagen, daß das pK und das Molekulargewicht der Farbstoffe wichtig aber nicht unbedingt die einzigen Faktoren sind, die die Färbung der Granula bestimmen. Die Resultate zeigen, daß eine Veränderung im metachromatischen Material (vermutlich Proteinpolysaccharide) vorliegt, und zwar sowohl in der Matrix als in den Zellen des Epiphysenknorpels; diese Veränderung scheint im Zusammenhang mit der Verkalkung zu stehen.
    Notes: Abstract Hand-cut sections of fresh epiphyseal cartilage from young rats were stained at pH 4.5 in 0.01% solutions of various cationic dyes of the thiazine, oxazine, azine, triphenylmethane, acridine, and phthallocyanin classes. The intracellular β-and γ-metachromatic granules, previously demonstrated in fresh tissues with toluidine blue, were also demonstrated well with azure A, methylene blue, and brilliant cresyl blue. The granules were also demonstrated, but not as well, by thionin, neutral red, safranin O, toluylene blue, and acridine orange. Under the conditions of staining, the reserve zone matrix and the lower hypertrophic (calcifying) zone matrix stained, whereas the proliferative and upper hypertrophic zone matrix did not stain. Gallocyanin, crystal violet, basic fuchsin, azocarmine B, gallamine blue, and alcian blue either did not stain, or gave a different pattern of staining from that described above. It is suggested that the pK and molecular weight of the dyes are important, but not necessarily the only factors in determining the staining of the granules. The results indicate that there is a change in the metachromatic material (presumably proteinpolysaccharide) in both the matrix and cells of epiphyseal cartilage, which appears to be related to calcification.
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    Calcified tissue international 4 (1969), S. 359-365 
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    Keywords: Metals ; Ions ; Buffers ; Calcification
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'action de divers ions métalliques polyvalents sur les propriétés métastables d'un tampon calcifiable a été étudiée. A des concentrations de 1 μM ou moins, les ions Pb2+, F2+, Fe3+, Cr3+, Bi3+ et Al3+ déstabilisent le tampon. Il semble que les phosphates insolubles formés par ces ions déclanchent la précipitation de l'apatite. L'importance de ces résultats dans l'étiologie des calcifications pathologiques et la calciphylaxie est décrite.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Die Wirkung von verschiedenen polyvalenten Metallionen auf die Metastabilität eines Calcifikationspuffers wurde untersucht. Bei Konzentrationen von 1 μM oder weniger wird der Puffer durch Pb2+, Fe2+, Fe2+, Cr3+, Bi3+ und Al3+ entstabilisiert. Die Resultate lassen vermuten, daß unlösliche Phosphate, die mit diesen Ionen entstehen, eine Fällung von Apatit veranlassen. Die Bedeutung dieser Befunde bei pathologischen Verkalkungen und Calciphylaxis werden besprochen.
    Notes: Abstract The effect was studied of various polyvalent metal ions on the metastability of a calcification buffer. At concentration of 1 μM or less, Pb2+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Cr3+, Bi3+ and Al3+ ions were found to destabilize the buffer. The results suggest that insoluble phosphates formed by these ions initiate the precipitation of calcium apatite. The implications of these findings to pathological calcification and calciphylaxis are discussed.
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    Calcified tissue international 4 (1969), S. 136-146 
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    Keywords: Bone ; Calcification ; Osteoblasts ; Osteoclasts ; Poultry
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'activité des cellules osseuses et la composition du fémur de pondeuses furent examinées pendant sept jours de déficience calcique (diète contenant 0,13% de calcium) et sept jours de réplétion (diète contenant 3,2% de calcium). Du point de vue histologique, seul l'os cortical donnait des signes nets de résorption et d'activité ostéoclastique. Le nombre d'ostéoclastes dans l'os médullaire différait peu des valuers témoin pendant les périodes de déficience et de réplétion subséquente, sauf pour une augmentation significative au premier jour de déplétion. L'effect histologique le plus important dans l'os médullaire était une augmentation marquée en nombre d'ostéoblastes aux troisième, cinquième, et un peu moins au septième jours de déplétion. Le nombre d'ostéoblastes était en corrélation positive avec la teneur de l'os médullaire en ostéoide et négative avec son degré de calcification. L'activité de l'os médullaire en phosphatase alcaline augmentait avec la longueur de la déficience calcique. Un jour après le retour des pondeuses à une diète contenant 3,2% de calcium, la calcification de l'os médullaire avait augmenté de façon significative, le nombre d'ostéoblastes avait diminué au niveau ou au-dessous du niveau de contrôle et l'activité de la phosphatase alcaline avait baissé considérablement. L'importance de ces résultats est discutée par rapport au controle des populations des cellules dan l'os et au rôle de l'os médullaire.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Die Zahl der Knochenzellen und die Zusammensetzung des Femurs von Legehennen wurden während einer siebentägigen Calciumentzugsperiode (Calciumgehalt des Futters 0,13%) und einer siebentägigen Ersatzperiode (Calciumgehalt des Futters 3,2%) untersucht. Histologisch zeigte nur die Cortex eindeutige Knochenresorption und osteoklastische Aktivität. Abgesehen von einer signifikanten Zunahme am 1. Tag des Calciumentzuges, variierte die Zahl der Osteoklasten im Markknochen sowohl während der Entzugs- als auch während der nachfolgenden Ersatzperiode wenig. Die wichtigste histologische Änderung im Markknochen bestand in einer starken Zunahme in der Zahl der Osteoblasten am 3., 5. und etwas weniger am 7. Tag der Entzugsperiode. Die Zahl der Osteoblasten zeigte eine positive Korrelation mit dem Osteoidgehalt des Markknochens und eine negative mit dem Grade seiner Verkalkung. Die Aktivität der alkalischen Phosphatase im Markknochen war desto größer je länger den Hennen die calciumarme Ration verfüttert worden war. Die Wiederverabreichung der Ration, welche 3,2% Calcium enthielt, verursachte innerhalb eines Tages eine signifikante Zunahme in der Verkalkung des Markknochens, ein Absinken der Osteoblastzahl auf die Kontrollwerte oder unter sie und eine drastische Verringerung der alkalischen Phosphataseaktivität. Die Bedeutung dieser Ergebnisse in bezug auf die Kontrolle des Knochenzellenbestandes und auf die Funktion des Markknochens wird diskutiert.
    Notes: Abstract Bone cell activity and the composition of the femur of laying hens were studied during 7 days of calcium depletion on a 0.13% calcium diet and 7 days of calcium repletion on a 3.2% calcium diet. Histologically, only cortical bone showed clear signs of bone resorption and osteoclastic activity during the depletion period. The number of osteoclasts in medullary bone varied little from control values throughout both calcium depletion and repletion, except for a significant increase on the first day of depletion. The major histologicalchange in medullary bone was a marked increase in the number of osteoblasts on the third, fifth and, to a lesser extent, seventh, day of depletion. The number of osteoblasts in medullary bone was positively correlated with its osteoid content and negatively correlated with its degree of calcification. Alkaline phosphatase activity of medullary bone increased with the time the hens had been on the calcium-deficient diet. Returning the hens to the 3.2% calcium ration caused, within one day, a significant increase in medullary bone calcification, a decrease of osteoblast numbers to, or below, control levels, and a drastic reduction in alkaline phosphatase activity of medullary bone. The significance of these findings in relation to the control of bone cell populations and the functions of medullary bone is discussed.
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    Calcified tissue international 4 (1969), S. 231-244 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Pyrophosphate ; Inhibitors
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les propriétés d'induction de calcification des liquides biologiques peuvent être mesurées, in vitro et in vivo, par leur possibilité de redurcir des blocs d'émail décalcifié. Cette propriété est exprimée par les concentrations de calcium (et de phosphate) de solutions synthétiques inductrices de calcification, de concentrations et d'activité connues. Un plasma humain typique a une activité inductrice correspondant à celle d'une solution contenant du calcium, 0,70 mM, Ca/P, 1,67 et fluorure, 0,05 mM. L'activité relativement peu élevée des sérums et des plasmas s'explique par la présence d'inhibiteurs ioniques. L'ion phosphate est l'un d'eux, mais ne peut rendre compte de l'inhibition totale. Des anions et des cations sont responsables de l'inhibition, avec un rôle majeur pour les cations. Les ions suivants, en concentration physiologique, jouent un rôle inhibiteur: P7O 7 4− , HCO 3 − , SiO 4 2− , CrO 4 2− , Mg2+, Zn2+. Un mélange de ces ions provoque une inhibition totale identique à celle du plasma.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Der Einfluß biologischer Flüssigkeiten auf den Verkalkungsvorgang kann in vitro und in vivo anhand ihrer Fähigkeit, enthärtete Blöcke von Zahnschmelz wieder zu härten, gemessen werden. Diese Aktivität wird ausgedrückt als Konzentration des Calciums (und Phosphates) synthetischer calcifizierender Lösungen mit bekannter Konzentration und Aktivität. Die Aktivität eines charakteristischen menschlichen Plasmas entsprach derjenigen einer Lösung folgender Zusammensetzung: Calcium 0,70 mM; Ca/P=1,67 und Fluorid 0,05 mM. Die relativ niedrige Aktivität von Serum und Plasma ist bedingt durch das Vorhandensein einer Anzahl ionischer Inhibitoren. Das Pyrophosphation ist ein solcher; er kann aber nicht für die gesamte Inhibition verantwortlich gemacht werden. Sowohl anionische als auch kationische Inhibitoren sind vorhanden, wobei die Kationen den Hauptanteil ausmachen. Folgende Ionen erwiesen sich in einer physiologischen Konzentration als Inhibitoren synthetischer Systeme: P7O 7 3− , HCO 3 − , SiO 4 1− , CrO 4 2− , Mg2+, Zn2+. Zusammengenommen verursachten diese Ionen eine Gesamtinhibition ähnlich derjenigen des Plasmas.
    Notes: Abstract The calcifying activities of biological fluids can be measured,in vitro andin vivo, by their ability to reharden softened blocks of tooth enamel. The activity is expressed in terms of the calcium (and phosphate) concentrations of synthetic calcifying solutions of known concentration and activity. A typical human plasma had an activity corresponding to that of a solution of the following concentration: calcium, 0.70 mM; Ca/P, 1.67 and fluoride, 0.05 mM. The relatively low activity of serums and plasmas was shown to arise from the presence of a number of ionic inhibitors. Pyrophosphate ion is one such inhibitor but cannot account for the major inhibition. Both anionic and cationic inhibitors were shown to be present, with the cations respresenting the major portion. The following ions at their reported physiological concentration were shown to be inhibitors in synthetic systems: P7O 7 4− , HCO 3 − , SiO 4 2− , CrO 4 2− , Mg2+, Zn2+. In combination, these ions caused a total inhibition similar to those for plasmas.
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    Calcified tissue international 4 (1969), S. 78-83 
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    Keywords: Bone ; Calcification ; Osteomalacia ; Phosphorus ; Vitamin D
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les effects d'une dose de 1 mg de vitamine D3 (40 000 Unités,) administrée par voie intra-veineuse, ont été étudiés sur l'histologie osseuse et le métabolisme du phosphore chez 19 sujets contrôles dont l'histologie était normale et 28 malades présentant les caractères histologiques de l'ostéomalacie par carence vitaminique D. L'administration de la vitamine D n'a entraîné aucune modification histologique ou biologique significative chez les sujets contrôles. Mais chez les ostéomalaciques, il est apparu en moins de sept jours une augmentation très significative du front de calcification à l'interface tissue-ostéoïde-tissue-calcifié. Cette modification s'accompagnait d'une ascension progressive de la phosphatémie et de la réabsorption tubulaire du phosphore atteignant dans le même délai des valeurs normales.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Bei 19 Patienten mit normaler Knochenhistologie und bei 28 Patienten mit histologisch gesicherter Osteomalacie wurde die Wirkung von 1 mg Vitamin D3 (40000 Iv) i.v. auf die Knochenhistologie und den Phosphatmetabolismus untersucht. Bei den Kontrollpatienten konnten keine signifikanten Änderungen nach Vitamin D festgestellt werden, wogegen die Osteomalacie-patienten innerhalb von 7 Tagen eine deutliche Zunahme der Verkalkungszone an der Grenze zwischen Osteoid- und Knochengewebe zeigten. Diese Änderung war von einer fortschreitenden Zunahme des Serum-Phosphates, verbunden mit einer gesteigerten renalen tubulären Rückabsorption des Phosphates begleitet; beide kehrten anschließend gleichzeitig wieder zur Norm zurück.
    Notes: Abstract The effect of a 1 mg dose of intravenous Vitamin D3 (40,000 i.u.) on bone histology and phosphate metabolism was investigated in 19 patients with normal bone histology and 28 patients with histological evidence of osteomalacia. No significant changes occurred in the control patients after Vitamin D but the patients with osteomalacia showed a marked increase, within seven days, in the proportion of osteoid having a calcification front. This was accompanied by a progressive rise in the serum phosphate, which was associated with an increase in the renal tubular reabsorption of phosphate to normal.
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    Calcified tissue international 4 (1969), S. 101-112 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Ligament ; Mollusc ; Aragonite
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    Description / Table of Contents: Une étude de microscopie électronique est réalisée sur la formation et la structure du ligament interne deMytilus edulis etPinctada radiata. Cette partie du ligament est dérivée des cellules isthmiques qui sont de forme cylindrique irrégulière. Elles présentent un ergastoplasme bien développé et un appareil de Golgi, engagé dans l'élaboration de vésicules et granules qui s'incorporent au niveau de la conchioline. Les cristaux se forment au niveau du front de calcification, à la surface interne du ligament. Ils sont entourés par une enveloppe. Ils se présentent comme des monocristaux d'aragonite, allongés et en forme d'aiguilles, dispersés dans le ligament. Bien que les constituants de la carapace et du ligament soient identiques, il existe des différences concernant l'augmentation quantitative de conchioline et une diminution en nombre, forme diverse, groupement et croissance des cristaux. Ces différences sont probablement liées à la fonction spécialisée du ligament.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Die Bildung und Struktur des inneren Ligamentes vonMytilus edulis undPinctada radiata wurden am Elektronenmikroskop untersucht. Dieser Teil des Ligamentes stammt von den Isthmuszellen ab, deren Form unregelmäßig säulenartig ist. Sie zeigen ein vorspringendes, rauhes endoplasmatisches Reticulum und einen Golgiapparat, welche sich mit der Bildung von Bläschen und Granula befassen, die schließlich in einem integralen Teil des Conchiolins eingebaut werden. Die Kristalle entstehen an der Calcifikationsgrenze an der inneren Oberfläche des Ligamentes und sind in Hüllen eingeschlossen. Sie bestehen aus langen, nadelförmigen, einzelnen Aragonit-Kristallen, die über das ganze Ligament verteilt sind. Obschon die Bestandteile der Muschel und des Ligamentes gleichartig sind, unterscheiden sich die beiden durch eine erhöhte conchiolinmenge, wie auch durch eine Abnahme der Anzahl der Kristalle, welche verschieden in der Form, in der Anordnung und im Wachstum sind. Dies alles ist vermutlich auf die spezielle Funktion des Ligamentes zurückzuführen.
    Notes: Abstract An electron microscope study was made of the formation and structure of the inner ligament ofMytilus edulis andPinctada radiata. This part of the ligament is derived from the isthmus cells which are irregular columnar in shape. They exhibit a prominent rough endoplasmic reticulum and a Golgi apparatus, which are concerned with the elaboration of vesicles and granules eventually incorporated into an integral part of the conchiolin. The crystals arise at the calcification front at the inner surface of the ligament and are enclosed in envelopes. They consist of long, needle-shaped, single aragonite crystals widely dispersed in the ligament. Although the components of the shell and ligament are similar, differences between them consist of an increased amount of conchiolin, as well as a decrease in the amount, diversity of form, arrangement and growth of the crystals; all probably related to the specialized function of the ligament.
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    Calcified tissue international 3 (1969), S. 363-365 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Mitochondria ; Protozoa
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    Calcified tissue international 3 (1969), S. 151-162 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Physiologic ; Phosphonic Acids ; Phosphates ; Crystallization ; Electron Microscopy
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé On a étudié la formation de l'hydroxyapatite de calcium cristallin à partir de solutions d'ions de calcium et de phosphate et l'inhibition de la croissance de cristaux de l'hydroxyapatite de calcium au moyen de polyphosphonates et de polyphosphates. Les polyphosphonates, éthane hydroxy-1-diphosphonate-1,1 de disodium et dichlorométhanediphosphonate de disodium, sont inhibiteurs efficaces contre la croissance de cristaux de l'hydroxyapatite de calcium. Les polyphosphates sont aussi inhibiteurs efficaces contre la croissance de cristaux de l'hydroxyapatite de calcium tant que le niveau exigé de polyphosphate intact est présent dans le système. Cependant, à cause de leur instabilité hydrolytique, qui est soulignée par une température élevée, valeur de pH basse, et certaines enzymes, la concentration du polyphosphate diminue avec le tempsin vitro, et son activité comme inhibiteur est perdue. Au contraire aux polyphosphates, les polyphosphonates sont hydrolytiquement stables. Les polyphosphonates sont chimiosorbés sur la surface des microcristallites de l'hydroxyapatite de calcium, ainsi empêchant l'occurrence d'autre croissance de cristaux semblable à l'action d'autres poisons connus de croissance de cristaux. On propose l'extension de cette action sur la formation de l'apatite et cette stabilité des polyphosphonates aux applications médicales et dentaires concernant le metabolisme pathologique de calcium et de phosphate.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Die Bildung des kristallinen Calciumhydroxyapatit aus Lösungen, welche Calcium- und Phosphationen enthalten, und die Hemmung der Bildung von kristallinen Calciumhydroxyapatit durch Polyphosphonate und Polyphosphate wurden untersucht. Polyphosphonate, Dinatriumäthan-1-hydroxyl-1,1-diphosphonat und Dinatriumdichloromethandiphosphonate verhindern das Kristallwachstum des Calciumhydroxyapatits. Die Polyphosphate verhindern ebenfalls das Kristallwachstum des Calciumhydroxyapatits, solange die notwendige Konzentration des nicht hydrolysierten Polyphosphats vorhanden ist. Wegen ihrer hydrolytischen Unbeständigkeit, die durch hohe Temperatur, niedrige pH und bestimmte Enzyme erhöht wird, vermindert sich jedoch die Konzentration des Polyphosphats allmählichin vitro, und ihre Hemmungsaktivität geht verloren. Im Gegensatz zu den Polyphosphaten sind die Polyphosphonate hydrolytisch beständig. Die Polyphosphonate werden an der Oberfläche der Mikrokristallite des Calciumhydroxyapatits chemisorbiert und verhindern, wie andere bekannte Kristallwachstumsgifte, auf diese Weise weiteres Kristallwachstum. Die Beständigkeit der Polyphosphonate und ihre Chemisorption an dem Apatit empfehlen ihren Gebrauch in der ärztlichen und zahnärztlichen Praxis, soweit sie den pathologischen Calcium- und Phosphatstoffwechsel betreffen.
    Notes: Abstract The formation of crystalline calcium hydroxyapatite from solutions of calcium and phosphate ions and the inhibition of calcium hydroxyapatite crystal growth by polyphosphonates and polyphosphates have been studied. The polyphosphonates, disodium ethane-1-hydroxy-1,1-diphosphonate and disodium dichloromethane diphosphonate, are effective inhibitors of calcium hydroxyapatite crystal growth. The polyphosphates are also effective inhibitors of calcium hydroxyapatite crystal growth as long as the required level of intact polyphosphate is present in the system. However, because of their hydrolytic instability, which is enhanced by high temperature, low pH, and certain enzymes, the concentration of the polyphosphate decreases with timein vitro, and its activity as an inhibitor is lost. In contrast to the polyphosphates, the polyphosphonates are hydrolytically stable. The polyphosphonates are chemisorbed on the surface of the microcrystallites of calcium hydroxyapatite and, in the manner of other known crystal growth poisons, thus prevent further crystal growth. The stability of the polyphosphonates and their chemisorption on apatite suggest their use in medical and dental applications involving pathological calcium and phosphate metabolism.
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    Calcified tissue international 3 (1969), S. 184-193 
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    Keywords: Mitochondria ; Calcification ; Calcium ; Chondrocytes ; Growth plate
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Des cultures d'épiphyse prélevées sur des rats et des souris ont été étudiées sous le microscope électronique. Un profile de granules mitochondriques de densité électronique a été trouvé. Les chondrocytes dans la zone proliférative avaint peu de granules, alors que ceux des zones successives ont montré une augmentation progressive de leur nombre et densité jusqu'à ce que la zone de calcification provisoire ait été atteinte. Cette zone a montré une distribution périphérique de mitochondries et une réduction du nombre et de la densité des granules mitochondriques. Du calcium isotopique 47 a été utilisé autoradiographiquement pour déterminer la location de calcium dans ces cellules. Des grains ont été trouvés sur les membranes R.E. et sur la plupart des mitochondries. La preuve d'un profile de ces granules et de leur rapport spatial avec la face de minéralisation indique une action éventuelle de mitochondries dès le début de la calcification de la matrice.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Epiphysekulturen von Ratten und Mäusen wurden unter dem Elektronenmikroskop untersucht. Ein Profil von mitochondrischen Körnchen mit elektronischer Dichte wurde gefunden. Chondrozyten in der Proliferationszone wiesen wenig Körnchen auf, während die der nachfolgenden Zonen allmählich an Zahl und Dichte zunahmen, bis die Zone der provisorischen Verkalkung erreicht wurde. Diese Zone zeigte eine periphere Verteilung der Mitochondrien und eine Abnahme in Zahl und Dichte der mitochondrischen Körnchen. Isotopes Kalzium 47 wurde autoradiographisch verwendet, um die Lage des Kalziums in diesen Zellen zu bestimmen. Körnchen wurden auf den E.R.-Membranen und auf einem Großteil der Mitochondrien gefunden. Der Nachweis eines Profils dieser Körnchen und ihres räumlichen Verhältnisses zur Mineralisierungsfläche weist auf einen möglich Einfluß der Mitochondrien mit Beginn der Matrixverkalkung hin.
    Notes: Abstract Rat and mice epiphyseal growth plates were studied with the electron microscope. A gradient of mitochondrial electron-dense granules was found. Chondrocytes in the proliferative zone had few granules, while those of the succeeding zones showed a gradual increase in number and density until the zone of provisional calcification was reached. This zone showed a peripheral distribution of mitochondria and a decrease in the number and density of mitochondrial granules. Isotopic47calcium was used autoradiographically to determine the location of calcium in these cells. Grains were found over the endoplasmic reticulum membranes and over most mitochondria. The demonstration of a gradient of these granules and their spatial relation to the mineralization front suggests a possible involvement of mitochondria in the onset of matrix calcification.
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    Calcified tissue international 3 (1969), S. 266-273 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Arteries ; Membranes ; Elastic tissue
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Avec la modification d'une méthode de von Kossa nous avons macroscopiquement representé les dessins de calcification de la membrane élastique intérieure, ainsi que les grosses artères du bassin, des artères des extrémités inferieures, des artères du bras, de la rate et des reins. Dans les artères du type élastique, dans les A.a. ilicae communes et internae, se présentaient les dégénérations calcaires de la membrane élastique intérieure sous forme d'incrustations noires arrondies ou polygonales qui ont été formes en groupes. Elles étaient toujours présentes chez des enfants agés de plus de trois mois et chez des aux adultes. Dans les artères musculaires, se montraient les parties calcifiées de la membrane élastique intérieure en forme de «bandes de calcaire» noires et groupes en paires le long des bordures des fissures de la membrane. Dans le cas où existait une calcinose forcée, on pouvait montrer avec cette méthode tout le système de fissures de la mambrane élastique intérieure. Chez tous les morts âgés de 10 à 20 ans, nous avons trouvé des bandes de calcaire dans les artères musculaires des extrémités inferieures. Ces bandes de calcaire ont été constatées aussi dans des personnes plus âgées. Au point de la fusion des bandes de calcaire et des incrustations calcaire polygonales des dépôts calcaires en forme de feuille («feuilles de calcaire») se forment dans la membrane elastique. Les bandes de calcaire et les feuilles de calcaire représentent des points de cristallisation pour des dépôts calcaire granuleux. Ils se forment dans la plupart des cas sur le la côté externe tourné vers la media.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Mit einer modifizierten von Kossa-Methode wurden die Verkalkungsmuster der inneren elastischen Membran der großen Beckenarterien, der Arterien der unteren Extremität, der Oberarm-, Milz-und Nierenarterien makroskopisch dargestellt. In den Arterien vom elastischen Typ, i.e. in den Aa. ilicae communes et internae, erschienen die Verkalkungen der inneren elastischen Membran als schwarze rundliche oder polygonale Inkrustationen, die zu Gruppen angeordnet waren. Sie wurden häufig bereits bei Neugeborenen festgestellt. Bei Kindern, die älter waren als 3 Monate und bei Erwachsenen lagen sie stets vor. — In den muskulären Arterien traten die verkalkten Anteile der inneren elastischen Membran makroskopisch als schwarze paarweise angeordnete „Kalkbänder” entlang den Rändern vorgebildeter Membranspalten auf. Bei ausgeprägter Calcinose konnte mit der angewandten Methode das gesamte Spaltensystem der inneren elastischen Membran dargestellt werden. Kalkbänder wurden in den muskulären Arterien der unteren Extremität bei allen 10–20 Jahre alten Verstorbenen vorgefunden und waren auch in den nachfolgenden Altersstufen stets vorhanden. Beim Zusammenfluß von Kalkbändern und polygonalen Kalkinkrustationen entstehen in der inneren elastischen Membran folienartige Kalkablagerungen („Kalkfolien”). Die Kalkbänder und Kalkfolien stellen Kristallisationspunkte für körnige Kalkablagerungen dar, die zumeist an ihrer äußeren, der Media zugekehrten Seite entstehen.
    Notes: Abstract Calcification patterns of the internal elastic membrane of the main pelvic arteries, lower limb arteries, brachial, splenic and renal arteries were demonstrated grossly by a modified von Kossa technique. In the elastic segment in the common and internal iliac arteries, the membrane calcification appeared as groups of roundish or polygonal incrustations. They were found frequently in newborns, and were always present in infants of more than three months, as well as in adults. In the muscular arteries, the calcified parts of the internal elastic membrane appeared grossly as pairs of bands (“calcific bands”) along the edges of the pre-existing gaps in this membrane. When calcification was pronounced, the whole pattern of the membrane gaps could be demonstrated by the method used in this study. Calcific bands were found in the muscular arteries of the lower limbs in all 10–20 year-old subjects, and were always present in the older age groups. The confluence of calcific bands or polygonal membrane incrustations found in the iliac arteries lead to sheet-like membrane calcification. The calcific bands and sheets represent crystallizing points for grain-like calcific deposits, which appear later on the medial surface.
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    Calcified tissue international 4 (1969), S. 20-38 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Epiphyseal Cartilage ; Bone ; Electrolytes ; Organic matrices
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Un procédé de dissection a été mis au point pour permettre l'analyse zonale du cartilage de l'épiphyse des os de la jambe d'un foetus bovin. Des échantillons de tissu complet et lavé venant des différentes zones ont été analysés pour déterminer leur contenu en électrolyte et en constituants organiques, ainsi que pour leur densité, cendres et humidité. Les résultats ont montré que lorsque la quantité de cendres et la densité augmentaient, l'eau contenu dans le tissu diminuait. Les quantités de cendres dans les zones de cartilage en voie de calcification étaient plus grandes qu'il avait été. Quand elles étaient exprimées comme un pourcentage du poids sec, elles étaient les plus importantes dans le cartilage lavé calcifié que dans le autre zones. Au début de la minéralisation du cartilage, la quantité de Na (m moles/l de tissu frais) diminuait tandis que celles du Ca et du P inorganique augmentaient. Les niveaux de Mg augmentaient pendant que la calcification se poursuivait, mais seulement à une faction du taux du Ca et du P. Les rapports Ca/P inorganique étaient les plus grands dans le cartilage au repos (Cartilage non-différentié hyalin), suggérant un lien initiale entre Ca et les chrondromucoprotéines. Cependant, au début de la calcification, pendant la prolifération du cartilage les rapports Ca/P étaient beaucoup plus petits (ca. 1.50) mais augmentaient graduellement avec l'advancement de la minéralisation. Des changements importants survenaient dans la composition de la phase organique, pendant la calcification endochondrale. Comme il a été déterminé par l'analyse de l'hydroxyproline la quantité de collagéne diminuait progressivement pendant la calcification du cartilage, mais augmentait rapidement pendant la formation d'os. Comme il a été déterminé par l'analyse de l'héxosamine et du sulfute les chrondromucoprotéines étaient aux niveaux les plus éléves pendant la prolifération du cartilage et diminuaient constamment au cours de la calcification. Cependant, bien que la calcification était déja très avancée dans le cartilage hypertrophique, de grandes quantites de mucopolysaccharides étaient encore présentes. Les rapports sulfure/hhéxosamine montraient un léger déclin pendant les premiéres étapes de la calcification, mais augmentaient beaucoup pendant le cours de la minéralisation. Les quantités d'acide sialique étaient plus grandes dans le cartilage de l'épiphyse que dans le cartilage au repos ou dans l'os. Les lipides augmentaient rapidement pendant la calcification du cartilage, mais étaient très réduites dans l'os complètement formé. La signification de ces résultats est discutée.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Eine Seziermethode, die eine Schichten-Analyse der Beinepiphysenplatte von Rinderfeten erlaubt, wurde entwickelt. Proben vor und nach Waschen des Gewebes der verschiedenen Schichten werden untersucht in bezug auf Elektrolyte und organische Bestandteile, als auch in bezug auf Dichte, Aschengehalt und Feuchtigkeit. Die Resultate zeigten eine Zunahme des Aschengehaltes und der Dichte, während der Wassergehalt abnahm. Unerwartet hoch waren die Aschenwerte im in Verkalkung begriffenen Knorpel. Ausgedrückt in Prozent Trockengewicht, ergab gewaschener, verkalkter Knorpel den höchsten Wert aller Zonen. In den Frühstadien der Knorpelmineralisation nahm der Natriumgehalt (m Mol/l Frischgewebe) ab, während Ca und anorganischer P zunahmen. Mit fortschreitender Verkalkung erhöhte sich auch der Magnesium-Spiegel, allerdings nur zu einem Bruchteil des Ausmaßes, in welchem Ca und P zunahmen. Die höchsten Ca/P anorg. Verhältnisse wurden im Ruheknorpel (undifferenzierter hyaliner Knorpel) gefunden, was auf eine initiale Bindung von Ca durch Chondromucoproteine hinweist. Die Ca/P-Verhältnisse proliferierenden Knorpels waren jedoch bei Verkalkungsbeginn viel tiefer (ca. 1.50). Diese nahmen allerdings mit fortschreitender Mineralisierung stetig zu. In der endochondralen Verkalkungsphase fanden markante Veränderungen in der Zusammensetzung des organischen Anteils statt. Basierend auf der Hydroxyprolinanalyse nahm der Collagengehalt in der knorpeligen Verkalkungsperiode fortschreitend ab, während er jedoch bei der Knochenbildung rasch zunahm. Die an Hand von Hexosamin- und Schwefelanalysen bestimmten Chondromucoproteingehalte ergaben Höchstwerte im proliferierenden Knorpel und fielen stetig ab mit zunehmender Verkalkung. Trotz der im hypertrophischen Knorpel schon weit fortgeschrittenen Verkalkung waren immer noch große Mengen an Mucopolysacchariden vorhanden. Die Schwefel/Hexosamin-Verhältnisse zeigten eine minimale Abnahme in den frühen Verkalkungsphasen, nahmen jedoch markant zu bei fortschreitender Mineralisation. Der Sialinsäurespiegel war im Epiphysenknorpel, verglichen mit demjenigen des Ruheknorpels oder Knochens, erhöht. In der knorpeligen Verkalkungsphase nahmen die Lipide rasch zu, während jedoch die Werte des vollständig ausgebildeten Knochens stark vermindert waren. Die Bedeutung dieser Ergebnisse wird besprochen.
    Notes: Abstract A dissection procedure has been devised to permit zonal analysis of the epiphyseal plate of fetal calf leg bones. Samples of whole and washed tissue from the various zones were analyzed for their content of electrolyte and organic constituents, as well as for density, ash and moisture. Results showed that as ash content and density increased, water content decreased. Ash levels in calcifying cartilage zones were unexpectedly high. When expressed as a percentage of dry weight, washed calcified cartilage had the highest content of any zone. In the early stages of the mineralization of cartilage, Na content (mmoles/l of fresh tissue) decreased as Ca and inorganic P increased. Magnesium levels increased as calcification proceeded, but only at a fraction of the rate of Ca and P. Ratios of Ca/inorganic P were highest in resting cartilage (non-differentiated hyaline cartilage), suggesting an initial binding of Ca to chondromucoproteins. However, at the onset of calcification in proliferating cartilage, Ca/P ratios were much lower (ca. 1.50), but gradually increased with advancing mineralization. Marked changes occurred in the composition of the organic phase during endochondral calcification. As determined by hydroxyproline analysis, collagen content progressively decreased during cartilaginous calcification, but increased rapidly during bone formation. As determined by hexosamine and sulfur analysis, chondromucoproteins were at highest levels in proliferating cartilage and decreased steadily as calcification increased. However, although calcification was already well advanced in hypertrophic cartilage, large amounts of mucopolysaccharide still were present. Sulfur/hexosamine ratios showed a slight decline during the early stages of calcification, but increased markedly with further mineralization. Sialic acid levels were elevated in epiphyseal cartilage over those in resting cartilage or bone. Lipids increased rapidly during cartilaginous calcification, but were greatly reduced in fully-formed bone. The significance of these findings is discussed.
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    Calcified tissue international 2 (1968), S. 214-228 
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    Keywords: Calcinosis ; Calcification ; Cartilage ; Collagen ; Mineral metabolism
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Les facteurs, influençant la vitesse et l'intensité du phénomène d'association des ions calcium et phosphates avec des fibres contenant du collagène, et préparés à partir du tendon de boeuf par deux méthodes d'extraction différentes, ont été étudiés. Les fibres, obtenues par ces deux méthodes, nécessitent spécifiquement du phosphate pour absorber du calcium et vice versa. L'absorption ionique des deux préparations est inhibée par du Mg++, du pyrophosphate et un peptide acidique, isolé du sérum humain. Alors que les fibres contenant du collagène, préparées selon les deux méthodes, présentent une absorption ionique à des vitesses sensiblement identiques, seule une des méthodes donne une matrice réagissant positivement à la technique de coloration au nitrate d'argent de von Kossa. Etant donné que les deux critères de calcification sont intéressés de façon identique par des conditions de réaction et par des inhibiteurs, il apparait que les deux facteurs sont des manifestations de différents stades de calcification et que des études d'absorption ionique fournissent une base quantitative d'appréciation de la calcification, pouvant être d'importance pour l'étude du mécanisme et de contrôle de la minéralisation tissulaire.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Überprüft wurden die Faktoren, welche Geschwindigkeit und Ausmaß der Erscheinung beeinflussen, wobei Calcium- und Phosphationen sich mit den kollagenhaltigen, durch zwei verschiedene Extraktionsmethoden aus Rindersehnen gewonnenen Fasern eng zusammenbinden. Die mit beiden Methoden zubereiteten Fasern benötigen spezifisch Phosphat für die Calciumaufnahme und Calcium für die Phosphataufnahme. Die Ionenaufnahme beider Arten wird durch Mg++, Pyrophosphat und saure, aus dem menschlichen Serum isolierte Peptide gehemmt. Während die nach beiden Methoden präparierten kollagenhaltigen Fasern eine Ionenaufnahme von beinahe gleicher Geschwindigkeit verursachen, ergibt nur eine dieser Methoden eine Matrix, die mit der Silbernitratfärbung nach vonKossa positiv reagiert. Da beide Calcifikationskriterien gleicherweise durch Reaktionsbedingungen und Inhibitoren beeinflußt werden, wird daraus geschlossen, daß beide Erscheinungen verschiedener Stadien des Gesamtcalcifikationsprozesses sind. Untersuchungen über die Ionenaufnahme ergeben eine quantitative Angabe der Verkalkung, welche für die Erforschung des Mechanismus und der Kontrolle der Mineralisation der Gewebe wichtig sein könnte.
    Notes: Abstract Factors that influence the rate and extent of the phenomenon in which calcium and phosphate ions become firmly associated with collagen-containing fibers prepared from beef tendon by two different extraction methods have been investigated. The fibers produced by both methods specifically require phosphate for calcium uptake and calcium is required for phosphate uptake. Ion uptake by both types is inhibited by Mg++, pyrophosphate, and an acidic peptide isolated from human serum. Whereas the collagen-containing fibers prepared by both methods induce ion uptake at nearly identical rates, only one of the methods produced a matrix that gives a positive response to the silver nitrate staining technique of von Kossa. Since both criteria of calcification are similarly influenced by reaction conditions and inhibitors, it is concluded that both are manifestations of different stages of the overall calcification process and that studies of ion uptake provide a quantitative assessment of calcification which could be of importance for investigating the mechanism and control of tissue mineralization.
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    Calcified tissue international 2 (1968), S. 1-19 
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    Keywords: Collagen ; Hydroxyapatite ; Keratin ; Enamel ; Calcification
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    Calcified tissue international 2 (1968), S. 60-66 
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    Keywords: Fluorides ; Topical/Pharmacodynamics ; Penicillin/Pharmacodynamics ; Calcification ; Physiologic/Drug Effects ; Rats
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé L'objet de ce travail était de comparer le phénomène de la maturation postéruptive dans les molaires des rats ordinaires et sans germes à qui on a donné à manger un régime «non-cariogène». On a étudié les effets de l'application topique du fluorure et de la nourriture de la penicilline sur la maturation. Les molaires des rats ordinaires (nourris d'un régime «chow» — aliment mixte pour les animaux préparé d'habitude sous la forme d'une farine ou en boulettes) traités topiquement avec une solution à 1% de NaF et les molaires des rats ordinaires nourris d'un régime «chow» complété avec la penicilline à 1% ont montré un degré de maturation significativement plus grand que les molaires des rats de la même portée nourris de «chow» et traités avec de l'eau. De l'autre côté, les molaires des rats sans germes traités topiquement avec une solution à 1% de NaF n'ont montré aucune différence significative dans le degré de maturation des molaires de rats de contrôle semblables traités topiqument avec l'eau. Ces résultats sont en accord avec l'hypothèse que dans un milieu normal le procédé de minéralisation (maturation) est opposé par un procédé de déminéralisation. Le procédé de déminéralisation est un résultat de la production d'acide par des bactéries qui métabolisent les aliments encastrés dans les «sulci» des molaires. On propose que dans les animaux ordinaires le fluorure et la penicilline peuvent influencer la maturation en empêchant le procédé de déminéralisation. Dans les animaux sans germes le procédé de déminéralisation est absent parce que la microflore orale est absente.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Der Zweck dieser Arbeit war ein Vergleich des nach dem Durchbruch auftretenden Reifungsphänomens der Backenzähne von gewöhnlich und von keimfrei gehaltenen Ratten, die mit einer nicht-cariogenen Diät ernährt wurden. Es wurden die Auswirkungen von topisch angewendetem Fluorid, verbunden mit Penicillin-Fütterung auf die Reifung untersucht. Die Backenzähne der gewöhnlich gehaltenen Ratten (mit “Chow”-Diät ernährt), die mit einer 1%igen Na-Fluoridlösung topisch behandelt wurden, und solchen deren “Chow”-Diät zu 1% mit Penicillin versetzt wurde, zeigten einen erheblich größeren Reifungsgrad als die Backenzähne von Tieren des gleichen Wurfes, die nur mit der “Chow”-Diät und Wasser ernährt wurden. Diese Resultate stimmen mit der Hypothese überein, daß in einer normalen Umgebung dem Mineralisationsprozeß (Reifung) ein Demineralisationsprozeß entgegenwirkt. Der Demineralisationsprozeß ist durch eine Säureproduktion von Bakterien bedingt, welche die in die Zahnfurchen eingepreßten Nahrungsbestandteile metabolisieren. Es wird die Annahme vorgeschlagen, daß Fluoride und Penicillin bei den gewöhnlich gehaltenen Tieren die Reifung durch eine Inhibition des Demineralisationsprozesses beeinflussen. Bei keimfrei gehaltenen Tieren findet dagegen kein Demineralisationsprozeß statt, da die orale Mikroflora fehlt.
    Notes: Abstract The purpose of this work was to compare the phenomenon of post-eruptive maturation in molars of conventional and germfree rats fed non-cariogenic diets. The effects of topical application of fluoride and feeding penicillin on maturation were studied. The molars of conventional rats (fed a chow diet) treated topically with a 1% NaF solution and the molars of conventional rats fed a chow diet supplemented with 1% penicillin showed a significantly greater degree of maturation than did the molars of littermate rats fed chow and treated with water. On the other hand, the molars of germfree rats treated topically with a 1% NaF solution showed no significant difference in degree of maturation from the molars of similar control rats topically treated with water. These data are consistent with an hypothesis that in a normal environment the mineralization (maturation) process is opposed by a demineralization process. The demineralization process is a result of production of acid by bacteria metabolizing the diet impacted in the sulci of molars. It is proposed that in conventional animals fluoride and penicillin may influence maturation by inhibiting the demineralization process. In the germfree animals the demineralization process is absent because the oral microflora is absent.
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    Calcified tissue international 2 (1968), S. 361-369 
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    Keywords: Calcification ; Hydroxyapatite ; Keratin ; Hair ; Electron diffraction
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Certaines régions du cortex des fibres de kératine contiennent une proportion relativement élevée de matériel non kératinisé. L'orientation microfibrillaire dans ces régions est biaxiale et on y trouve, en outre, des zones de matériel amorphe. Les sels calciques, et en particulier l'hydroxyleapatite, sont étudiés par diffraction électronique qui permet de les localiser et de les identifier. En outre, cette technique permet de déterminer la fréquence de cellules nonkératinisées dans la partie interne du cortex et de les comparer avec les propriétés histochimiques de cette région. Une comparison est effectuée entre la calcification de la kératine et celle intéressant le collagène et l'élastine.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Es wird gezeigt, daß Bereiche im Cortex von gewissen Keratinfasern einen relativ hohen Anteil an nichtkeratinösem Material enthalten. Ferner konnte nachgewiesen werden, daß die Orientierung der Mikrofibrillen in diesen Bereichen biaxialer Art ist, und daß Bezirke von amorphem Material vorhanden sind. Die Calciumsalze und insbesondere das Hydroxyapatit konnten mit Hilfe der Elektronendiffraktion lokalisiert und identifiziert werden. Diese Methode hat sich auch als wertvoll erwiesen, um die Wechselbeziehung zwischen dem Vorkommen von einigen nichtkeratinisierten Zellen im Cortexinnern und den histochemischen Eigenschaften dieser Regionen zu zeigen. Ein Vergleich wird gemacht zwischen der Umgebung der Verkalkungsstellen im Keratin mit derjenigen im Kollagen und im Elastin.
    Notes: Abstract Regions in the cortex of some keratin fibres are shown to contain a relatively high proportion of non-keratinous material. The microfibrillar orientation in these regions is shown to be biaxial in nature and, in addition, areas of amorphous material are reported. Calcium salts, in particular hydroxyapatite, have been located and identified using electron diffraction, which has also proved valuable in correlating the incidence of some non-keratinised cells in the inner part of the cortex with the histochemical properties of this region. A comparison is made between the environment of the sites of calcification in keratin with those in collagen and elastin.
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    Calcified tissue international 2 (1968), S. 296-298 
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    Keywords: Calcium ; Lipid ; Bacteria ; Calcification
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    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé On a fait ce travail pour determiner si le facteur responsable pour la liaison de calcium par un calcifableBacterionema matruchotii est dans la fraction lipide de la cellule. Des cellules congelees et sechees ont ete extraites par le chloroform-methanol. La fraction de chloroform-methanol, les cellules extraites et les cellules non traitees ont ete examinees pour la liaison de calcium. La fraction du chloroform-methanol et les cellules non traitees avaient la liaison de calcium. Les cellules extraites n'en avaient pas.
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung Diese Arbeit wurde durchgeführt um festzustellen, ob sich der Faktor für die Calcium-bindung, durch das calcifizierendeBacterionema matruchotii, in der Lipoidfraktion befindet. Die lyophiilisierten Zellen wurden mit Chloroform-Methanol extrahiert. Die Chloroform-Methanol-Fraktion, die extrahierten Zellen, sowie die nicht behandelten Zellen wurden auf eine Calciumbindung hin untersucht. Die Chloroform-Methanol-Fraktion und die nicht behandelten Zellen demonstrierten eine Calciumbindung. Die extrahierten Zellen hingegen nicht.
    Notes: Abstract This work was done to determine whether the factor responsible for calcium binding by a calcifiableBacterionema matruchotii is in the lipid fraction of the cell. Freeze-dried cells were extracted with chloroform-methanol. The chloroform-methanol fraction, the extracted cells and untreated cells were examined for calcium binding. The chloroform-methanol fraction and the untreated cells bound calcium. The extracted cells did not.
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