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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2007 Aug 21;28(33):4901–4911. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2007.08.005

TABLE 2.

Ion Concentrations of the simulated body fluid used in this research and of human plasma.

Ion Concentration (mM)
Na+ K+ Ca2+ Mg2+ Cl- HCO3- HPO42- SO42-
SBF 142.0 5.0 2.5 1.5 147.8 4.2 1.0 0.5
Human plasma 142.0 5.0 2.5 1.5 103.0 27.0 1.0 0.5