
Tissue Engineering
Fundamentals and Applications
Description
Key Features
- Helps reader understand the key issues required for promotion of clinical trials in tissue engineering
- Covers in full the issues related to tissue engineering
- Looking at current technologies in the field
Readership
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Scope of Tissue Engineering
1. Functions of Scaffold
2. Absorbable Biomaterials
3. Pore Creation in Biomaterials
4. Special Scaffolds
5. Surface Modifications
6. Cell Expansion and Differentiation
7. Growth Factors
8. Cell Sources
Chapter 2: Animal and Human Trials of Engineered
Tissues
1. Plastic Surgical System
2. Musculoskeletal System
3. Cardiovascular and Thoracic System
4. Nervous System
5. Maxillofacial System
6. Gastrointestinal System
7. Urogenital System
8. Others
Chapter 3: Basic Technologies Developed for Tissue Engineering
1. Biomaterials
2. Fabrication of Porous Scaffolds
3. Novel Scaffolds
4. Surface Modification of Biomaterials and Cell Interactions
5. Growth Factors and Carriers
6. Cell Culture
7. Examples of Cell Culture
Chapter 4: Challenges in Tissue Engineering
1. Problems in Tissue Engineering
2. Sites for Neotissue Creation
3. Autologous or Allogeneic Cells
4. Cell Types
5. Risks at Cell Culture
6. Scaffolds for Large Animals and Human Trials
7. Importance of Neovascularization
8. Carriers for Growth Factors
9. Primary Roles of Each Player in the Tissue Engineering Arena
Product details
- No. of pages: 490
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2006
- Published: June 22, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123705822
- eBook ISBN: 9780080464008