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Barbieri Thesis - BioMedical Materials program (BMM)

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Chapter 6 – Flu uid uptake as insstructive<br />

factor<br />

Figure 12. Low magnification<br />

scans of (a) MLD, M (b) MLDL aand<br />

(c) MDL explants<br />

stained with h methylene<br />

blue and baasic<br />

fuchsin. Arroows<br />

indicate bone e (dark red) wherreas<br />

granules hav ve colors varying g from white<br />

to pink. Soft<br />

tissues are colored with violet/blue. v Blackk<br />

squares indica ate the spots where w high<br />

magnificatioon<br />

images were ttaken<br />

with light microscopy m (Figurre<br />

13).<br />

6.4. Disccussion<br />

The resullts<br />

of this studdy<br />

showed tha at fluid uptake in biomateria als can be controlled<br />

by<br />

means off<br />

polymer monnomer<br />

chemis stry in the casee<br />

of composite<br />

materials, or o through<br />

the surfacce<br />

grain size (thus the surfa ace area) in cceramics.<br />

Those<br />

materials that t could<br />

absorb mmore<br />

fluids alsoo<br />

showed high her degradabiility<br />

and protein<br />

adsorption potential.<br />

Besides this, they couuld<br />

induce he eterotopic bonne<br />

formation. However, th he results<br />

obtained in one of the two classes of o biomaterial ccould<br />

not be fully f extrapolat ted to the<br />

other onee<br />

due to multifaactorial<br />

issues s.<br />

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