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Surface analysis and effects on interfacial bone microhardness of collagen-coated titanium implants: a rabbit modelMarco Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Str S Rocco 36, 14018 Villafranca d Asti, Italy
Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants 20:23-30. 2005..The aim of this study was to evaluate the surface chemistry and the microhardness at the implant-bone interface using a recently developed collagen-coated titanium implant in a short-term rabbit model...- Non-fouling properties of polysaccharide-coated surfacesM Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Villafranca d Asti, Italy
J Biomater Sci Polym Ed 10:1107-24. 1999..The implications of chemical-molecular considerations to the properties of these coatings are discussed from an analytical and mechanistic point of view... - On the molecular basis of fouling resistanceM Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Villafranca d Asti, Italy
J Biomater Sci Polym Ed 11:547-69. 2000..When effects typical of water, such as hydrogen bonding, are considered, different pictures arise, even if their quantification poses several analytical challenges and new theoretical problems... - Adsorption of cationic antibacterial on collagen-coated titanium implant devicesM Morra
Nobil Bio Richerche, Strada San Rocco, 32, Villafranca d Asti, 14018, Italy
Biomed Pharmacother 58:418-22. 2004..These data indicate that biochemically modified collagen coated surfaces could be endowed also by antimicrobial properties, in the spirit of present researches on multifunctional implant surfaces... - Surface engineering of titanium by collagen immobilization. Surface characterization and in vitro and in vivo studiesM Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Str S Rocco 36, 14018 Villafranca d Asti, Italy
Biomaterials 24:4639-54. 2003.... - Surface chemistry effects of topographic modification of titanium dental implant surfaces: 1. Surface analysisMarco Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Villafranca d Asti, Italy
Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants 18:40-5. 2003..To analyze the surface composition of 34 different commercially available titanium dental implants... - Atomic force microscopy evaluation of aqueous interfaces of immobilized hyaluronanMarco Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Str S Rocco 32, Villafranca d Asti, Italy
J Colloid Interface Sci 259:236-43. 2003..In summary, these measurements clearly show the different nature of the aqueous interfaces tested, and underline the role of this analytical approach in the development and control of finely tuned biomaterial surfaces... - Surface chemistry effects of topographic modification of titanium dental implant surfaces: 2. In vitro experimentsClara Cassinelli
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Villafranca d Asti, Italy
Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants 18:46-52. 2003..To determine, in vitro, cytotoxicity and cell adhesion on 3 different implant surfaces... 
Covalently-linked hyaluronan promotes bone formation around Ti implants in a rabbit modelMarco Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Str S Rocco 36, 14018 Villafranca d Asti, Italy
J Orthop Res 27:657-63. 2009..1%; HA-coated 90.6%, p < 0.05). Suggestions based on the biochemical role of HA are presented to account for the observed behavior...- Effects on interfacial properties and cell adhesion of surface modification by pectic hairy regionsMarco Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Str. S. Rocco 36, 14018 Villafranca d'Asti, Italy
Biomacromolecules 5:2094-104. 2004.... - Controlling the lateral distribution and alignment of human gingival fibroblasts by micropatterned polysaccharide surfacesClara Cassinelli
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Villafranca d'Asti, Italy
Biomed Pharmacother 56:325-31. 2002..Beside the implications for the study of the mechanisms of bio-adhesion at hydrophilic surfaces, these systems can be of interest for a number of applications in dental surgery and materials... - Biomolecular modification of implant surfacesMarco Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche srl, Strada San Rocco 36, 14018 Villafranca d Asti, Italy
Expert Rev Med Devices 4:361-72. 2007.... - Multifunctional implant surfaces: surface characterization and bone response to acid-etched Ti implants surface-modified by fibrillar collagen IM Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Portacomaro AT, Italy
J Biomed Mater Res A 94:271-9. 2010..c) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res, 2010... - Effects of molecular weight and surface functionalization on surface composition and cell adhesion to Hyaluronan coated titaniumM Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Strada San Rocco, Villafranca d Asti, Italy
Biomed Pharmacother 60:365-9. 2006..These results indicate that the details of the surface functionalization step are crucial for surface engineering of implant devices by biological molecules... - Collagen I-coated titanium surfaces: mesenchymal cell adhesion and in vivo evaluation in trabecular bone implantsM Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Villafranca d Asti, Italy
J Biomed Mater Res A 78:449-58. 2006.... - Organic surface chemistry on titanium surfaces via thin film depositionM Morra
Nobil Bio Richerche, Villafranca d Asti, Italy
J Biomed Mater Res 37:198-206. 1997.... - Biochemical modification of titanium surfaces: peptides and ECM proteinsM Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche, Str S Rocco 36, 14018 Villafranca d Asti, Italy
Eur Cell Mater 12:1-15. 2006.... - Surface tension comparison of four common root canal irrigants and two new irrigants containing antibioticLuciano Giardino
Department of Periodontology, Dental, School, University of Brescia, Italy
J Endod 32:1091-3. 2006..Both new irrigants, MTAD and Tetraclean, are capable of removing the smear layer. Thanks to their low surface tension, increasing the intimate contact of irrigant solutions with the dentinal walls, they may permit deeper penetration... - Thrombogenicity of polysaccharide-coated surfacesJeffrey F W Keuren
Department of Biochemistry, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Biomaterials 24:1917-24. 2003.... - Fibrinogen adsorption, platelet adhesion and thrombin generation at heparinized surfaces exposed to flowing bloodJeffrey F W Keuren
Department of Biochemistry, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Thromb Haemost 87:742-7. 2002..It is apparent that the heparinized surface used in our studies exerts its anti-thrombogenic properties by neutralizing locally formed thrombin and not by reducing fibrinogen-dependent platelet adhesion... - Engineering of biomaterials surfaces by hyaluronanMarco Morra
Nobil Bio Ricerche S.r.l, Str. S. Rocco 36, 14018 Villafranca d'Asti, Italy
Biomacromolecules 6:1205-23. 2005..Finally, existing approaches to surface modification by HA are reviewed, stressing the need for HA-surface engineering founded on the knowledge and control of the surface-linked HA molecular conformation at the solid/aqueous interface... - Comment to the paper: Enhancing surface free energy and hydrophilicity through chemical modification of microstructured titanium implant surfaces, by F. Rupp, L. Scheideler, N. Olshanska, M. de Wild, M. Wieland, J. Geis-GerstorferMarco Morra
J Biomed Mater Res A 79:752-4; author reply 755-7. 2006 - Effect of modified pectin molecules on the growth of bone cellsHanna E Kokkonen
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Biomacromolecules 8:509-15. 2007..Focal adhesions indicating attachment of the osteoblastic cells were detected on MHR-B and uncoated controls but not on MHR-A. These results demonstrate the possibility to modify surfaces with pectin nanocoatings... - Enzymatically-tailored pectins differentially influence the morphology, adhesion, cell cycle progression and survival of fibroblastsMarie Danielle Nagel
Domaine Biomatériaux Biocompatibilité, UMR CNRS 6600, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, BP 20529, 60205 Compiegne Cedex, France
Biochim Biophys Acta 1780:995-1003. 2008..This study provides a basis for the design of intelligently-tailored biomaterial coatings able to induce specific cell functions...