The biological effects of nanohydroxyapatites and its cell toxicity have been studied using the MTT and ALP method, infrared spectrum of absorption and electrophoresis method, respectively. The nanohydroxyapatites are prepared and made by using Sol-gel method, in which the parameters of process and reaction are controlled as: pH > 9, Ca / P = 1.67, sintering temperature of 1100ºC and sintering time 2 hours. Studied results show that nanohydroxyapatites can interact with human serum albumin and change its second structure and weight of molecules. We find that the nanohydroxyapatites and complex of nano HAP+ nanoCrO 2 can all restrain the proliferation of MG63 cells, but their toxicities are first degree or minor, the toxicity of the complex is smaller than that of pure nanohydroxyapatites.Keywords: Nanohydroxyapatite; Cell proliferation; Biological function; Toxicity; Infrared spectrum; Electrophoresis; Human serum albumin; Molecular structure
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Investigation of Biological Property of Nanohydroxyapatite Materialswidely applications in biological hard tissues, such as human bones, teeth and vascular stents, as repaired and replacement materials, such as in oral implantology for increasing dental spine, ear bone or spine replacement, etc., allowing better results compared to those using metals and polymers. However, the biological effects of nanohydroxyapatites and its toxicity have been not studied systematically as yet . Therefore, it is very necessary to investigate their biological effects and toxicity for its wide applications in biology. This paper will describe a study of the problems by a novel method using light spectrum technique. It is well known that the crystalline hydroxyapatite belongs to hexagonal system, has a L 6 PC symmetry and / m space group, its structure is hexagonal prism, with the surface of hexagon which is perpendicular to c-axis, angle between a and b-axes is 120°, its parameters of crystalline cell are a 0 = b 0 = 0.943 ~ 0.938 nm, c 0 = 0.688 ~ 0.686 nm, the unit cell contains 10 Ca
2+, 6 PO 4 3-and 2OH-. OH -in the cell is in the four corners, 10 Ca 2+ occupy two kinds of location, respectively, in which four Ca 2+ occupy the Ca (I) positions at z = 0 and z = 1/ 2, respectively, the locations 2 of 6 Ca 2+ are in the Ca (II) positions at z = 1 / 4, and z = 3 / 4, respectively, the three ligand center is composed of three 0 3 and 6PO 4 3-ligands, which are located at z = 1 / 4, and z = 3 / 4 on a plane. Therefore, HA has a good stability due to the tetrahedral structure of PO 4 3-. Its structure is shown in Figure 1. There are many methods in the preparations of nano-HA material [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] , which can be, in general, divided into wet and dry methods. The wet method includes the precipitation method, hydrothermal method, sol-gel method, ultrasonic synthesis, micro-emulsion method and ultrasonic synthesis method, and so on. The solid-state reaction method then belongs to the dry method. The sol-gel method is a new method for prepara...