Component
Tooth enamel
Independent biological entity. Read linked claims for experimental scope and context.
1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
How nutrients influence it
Every nutrient with a recorded effect on this component, credited to the nutrient that acted rather than the chapter that recorded it. Open a nutrient to see the findings and the conditions they were measured under.
Other things that act on it
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How nutrients reach it in more than one step
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What it does
Every recorded relationship this component is part of, grouped by its role. Plain wording comes first; the technical statement follows.
What acts on it
Human enamel crystallites have an apatite lattice containing calcium and phosphate, with heterogeneous magnesium, sodium, fluoride and carbonate substitutions.
Experimental context and source evidence
- experimental_model
- Atomic-scale imaging and correlative spectroscopy
- limitations
- A structural tissue study; it does not test dietary calcium intake or enamel regeneration.
- nutrient_topic
- Calcium research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. · Calcium
- organism
- Homo sapiens
- plain_language
- Tooth enamel is built from chemically varied calcium phosphate crystals.
- primary_references
- [derocher2020] Chemical gradients in human enamel crystallites (2020). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8290891/ DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2433-3
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Dental enamel
Calcium: mechanism-first literature curation (2026-09-17) · lines 886–895
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Atomic-scale imaging and correlative spectroscopy · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### enamel-calcium-in-substituted-apatite Human enamel crystallites have an apatite lattice containing calcium and phosphate, with heterogeneous magnesium, sodium, fluoride and carbonate substitutions. Condition category: normal nutrient_topic: Calcium research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. plain_language: Tooth enamel is built from chemically varied calcium phosphate crystals. organism: Homo sapiens tissue_or_cell_type: Dental enamel experimental_model: Atomic-scale imaging and correlative spectroscopy limitations: A structural tissue study; it does not test dietary calcium intake or enamel regeneration. [derocher2020] Chemical gradients in human enamel crystallites (2020). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8290891/ DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2433-3
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The events it takes part in
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Situations it appears in
Low-supply and faulty-machinery situations recorded in the chapters where this component plays a part.
In the sources
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Open hypotheses
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