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Orientation and microstructural studies were made on the cortical components of various bovine bones. Although the function and the structure of the bone differed widely, the orientation textures of the apatite crystals were predominantly uniaxial, and very similar. The orientation function of the collagen component was found to be similar to that of the mineral, thus demonstrating that their initimate relationship exists in all bone structure and function.
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Bills, P.M., Lewis, D. & Wheeler, E.J. Mineral-collagen orientation relationships in bone. Journal of Crystallographic and Spectroscopic Research 12, 51–63 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01161100
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