In this process, a cartilage model is formed that is then converted into bone through the action of osteoblasts.
It is believed that about 10-30% pericytes can be converted into bone cells [ 4].
Electrodeposited calcium hydrogenphosphate coatings were converted into bone-like HA (calcium deficient HA) in an alkaline treatment.
Thereafter, ACP converted into bone-like ion-substituted CDHA with a Ca/P ratio of approximately 1.65, which was close to the value of bone mineral (Takadama et al. 2001).
Animal studies have shown that HA may convert fibrous tissue into bone, and that even under unstable mechanical conditions HA is capable of inducing bone growth across peri-implant gaps (Soballe et al. 1992a,b, 1993).
We thought that in both the graft died and was then revascularized by the host and that the bone underwent a process of absorption and replacement until it finally had been converted into living bone.
31P-ZTE signal intensity was converted into SNR31P and then into bone μ factor ("μ31P") using the conversion factor determined on the bone sample (after correcting SNR for the different acquisition time).
Although bone biopsies are not routinely undertaken in all hemodialysis patients, we have, as part of a research project into bone histology in patients converting to alternate nightly haemodialysis, performed bone biopsies in a cohort of 26 patients [ 22].
