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The problem of biocompatibility of materials, intended for use in prostheses to be implanted in human beings, can be split in the three subsequent branches:
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Immunopathology of the implanted material
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Its corrosion under the action of the contacting biological materials
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Toxicity of the corrosion products, including carcinogenesis
Director (retired) of the Chemistry Laboratories of the (Italian National) Institute of Health
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For a somewhat more extensive definition of “Bioelectrochemistry” and its scientific content s. G. Milazzo, Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics. An interdisciplinary survey in Bioelectrochemistry I, G. Milazzo and M. Blank (Editors), Plenum Press, New York and London (1983), p. 5–14.
E. Deltombe, N. de Zoubov and M. Pourbaix, in Atlas d’Equilibres Electrochimiques, M. Pourbaix et al. (Editors), Gauthier-Villars, Paris (1963), p. 331–332.
For a more extensive definition of the corrosion see G. Milazzo, Elektrochemie, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel — Boston — Stuttgart (1981), p. 82–96.
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Milazzo, G. (1988). Corrosion and Bioelectrochemistry. In: Hildebrand, H.F., Champy, M. (eds) Biocompatibility of Co-Cr-Ni Alloys. NATO ASI Series, vol 171. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0757-0_32
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