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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">BioDiscovery</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">BD</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2050-2966</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Pensoft Publishers</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/biodiscovery.20.e19830</article-id>
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          <subject>World BioDiscovery Congress 2017 Proceedings</subject>
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        <article-title>Ultrananocrystalline diamond coated implants for enhanced osseointegration</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Stateva</surname>
            <given-names>Silviya R</given-names>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Merker</surname>
            <given-names>Daniel</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Popov</surname>
            <given-names>Cyril</given-names>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Apostolova</surname>
            <given-names>Margarita</given-names>
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          <email xlink:type="simple">margo@obzor.bio21.bas.bg</email>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7188-506X</uri>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Roumen Tsanev Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>Roumen Tsanev Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
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        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics, Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany</addr-line>
        <institution>Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics, Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology, University of Kassel</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Kassel</addr-line>
        <country>Germany</country>
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        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Margarita Apostolova (<email xlink:type="simple">margo@obzor.bio21.bas.bg</email>).</p>
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          <p>Academic editor: </p>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2017</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2017</year>
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      <volume>20</volume>
      <elocation-id>e19830</elocation-id>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>26</day>
          <month>07</month>
          <year>2017</year>
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        <copyright-statement>Silviya R Stateva, Daniel Merker, Cyril Popov, Margarita Apostolova</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
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      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Osteoporosis causes bones to become weak and brittle. It is known that the alterations in bone metabolism associated to osteoporosis can impair bone healing around implants and affect their osseointegration. The main objective of this study was the development of new nanostructured implant materials based on ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) coatings for enhancing osseointegration. The films were deposited on Ti substrates by microwave plasma CVD from 17% CH<sub>4</sub>/N<sub>2</sub> gas mixtures and modified by O<sub>2</sub> or NH<sub>3</sub>/N<sub>2</sub> plasmas. The modifications rendered the H-terminated hydrophobic as-grown films hydrophilic. The interaction of endothelial (EA.hy926) and osteosarcoma (MG63) cells with differently modified UNCD surfaces was investigated by proteome analyses. It revealed the identification of over 19 000 proteins (extracellular and cytosolic). They correspond to 508 (Ti), 634 (UNCD), 651 (O-UNCD), and 668 (NH<sub>2</sub>-UNCD) protein groups. The interaction network analysis showed differences in the connectivity of inferred protein networks between the ECM niches, which suggests the presence of specific cell microenvironments on O- and NH<sub>2</sub>-terminated UNCD surfaces. Our results show that due to a favorable combination of surface chemical and topological properties the UNCD films, as-grown and especially after their plasma modifications, may serve as superior scaffolding for promoting the cell attachment and growth during osseointegration.</p>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Ultrananocrystalline diamond films</kwd>
        <kwd>Surface modification</kwd>
        <kwd>Titanium</kwd>
        <kwd>Implant materials Osseointegration</kwd>
        <kwd>Proteomics</kwd>
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        <title>Presenting author</title>
        <p>Silviya R Stateva</p>
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      <sec sec-type="Presented at">
        <title>Presented at</title>
        <p>World BioDiscovery Congress 2017</p>
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      <sec sec-type="Conflicts of interest">
        <title>Conflicts of interest</title>
        <p>The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests.</p>
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      <title>Acknowledgements</title>
      <p>The authors are grateful to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for the financial support under the Project PO 789/3-1 and DAAD / Bulgarian NSF for the support of the bilateral cooperation (DNTS - Germany 01/7); Project BG161PO003-1.2.04-0013-C0001 co-financed by the EU through the European Regional Development Fund and the State Budget of the Republic of Bulgaria.</p>
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