Abstract
Conducted biomineralogical studies indicate piezoelectric properties of apatite, which is one of the major components of bone. This publication presents hypothetical correlations between piezoelectric properties of bone apatite and the accompanying electromagnetic phenomena in bones and their environment. It notes the correlations between electrical properties of bones and changes in the electromagnetic field around bones, as well as connections between external pressure changes etc. and electrical phenomena in the bones.
Highlights
The first research data regarding piezoelectricity was the result of many years of work by the Curie brothers [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
Interesting was the study of electrical phenomena in the bones
Those piezoelectric phenomena have long been of interest both in biochemical and electrical terms [11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23] as well as in a practical sense, mainly in relation to bone healing and acceleration of fracture unions [24,25,26,27,28]
Summary
The first research data regarding piezoelectricity was the result of many years of work by the Curie brothers [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] It applied to electrical phenomena occurring in quartz crystals under mechanical pressure. Elements of bone such as bone marrow, body fluids, cells and others get in contact with bone collagen containing micro-crystals of hydroxyapatite. On this contact point, there is constant physicochemical equilibrium between the "biological world" and the "mineral world" of bone.
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