Fabrication and Characterization of Strontium-Substituted Hydroxyapatite-CaO-CaCO3 Nanofibers with a Mesoporous Structure as Drug Delivery Carriers

• Main Authors: Shiao-Wen Tsai (Author), Wen-Xin Yu (Author), Pai-An Hwang (Author), Sheng-Siang Huang (Author), Hsiu-Mei Lin (Author), Yu-Wei Hsu (Author), Fu-Yin Hsu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hydroxyapatite (HAp) is the main inorganic component and an essential part of hard bone and teeth. Due to its excellent biocompatibility, bioactivity, and osteoconductivity, synthetic HAp has been widely used as a bone substitute, cell carrier, and therapeutic gene or drug carrier. Recently, numerou...