Tissue engineering made easy. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Farhana Akter.
• Editors: Akter, Farhana
• Contents: Front Cover; Tissue Engineering Made Easy; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Editor Biography; 1 What is Tissue Engineering?; 1.1 Introduction; References; 2 Principles of Tissue Engineering; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Scaffold; 2.2.1 Biomaterials; 2.3 Bioreactors; 2.4 Cells; 2.5 Growth Factors; 2.6 Vascularization; 2.6.1 Stimulating Angiogenesis; 2.6.2 Prevascularization; 2.7 Summary; References; 3 Skin Engineering; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Anatomy of Skin; 3.3 Wound Healing; 3.4 Conventional Strategies for Wound Defects; 3.4.1 Autologous Skin Transplantation 3.5 Tissue-Engineered Skin Substitutes3.5.1 Natural Skin Substitutes; 3.5.1.1 Allograft and Xenograft; 3.5.1.2 Cultured Epidermal Autograft (CEA); 3.5.1.3 Amnion; 3.5.2 Synthetic Substitutes; 3.5.3 Epidermal Substitutes; 3.5.4 Dermal Substitutes; 3.5.5 Epidermal/Dermal Substitutes; 3.6 Stem Cells for Skin Regeneration; 3.7 Summary; References; 4 Neural Tissue Engineering; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Spinal Cord Injury; 4.2.1 Cell Therapy; 4.2.1.1 Schwann Cells; 4.2.1.2 Macrophages; 4.2.1.3 Dendritic Cells; 4.2.1.4 Olfactory Ensheathing Cells; 4.2.2 Growth Factors; 4.2.3 Scaffold 4.3 Brain Tissue Engineering4.4 Tissue Engineering of the Peripheral Nervous System; 4.4.1 Peripheral Nervous System Injury; 4.4.2 Common Repair Techniques; 4.5 Summary; References; 5 Ophthalmic Tissue Engineering; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Anatomy; 5.3 Ophthalmic Tissue Engineering; 5.4 Corneal Diseases; 5.5 Retinal Diseases; 5.5.1 Retinal Degeneration; 5.5.2 Transplantation Strategies; Retinal Sheet Transplantation; Cell Transplantation; 5.6 Conjunctival tissue engineering; 5.7 Summary; References; 6 Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Myocardial Tissue Engineering 6.2.1 Cell Sources6.2.1.1 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; 6.2.1.2 Embryonic Stem cells; 6.2.1.3 Mesenchymal Stem Cells; 6.2.1.4 Skeletal myoblasts; 6.2.1.5 Route of Cell Delivery; 6.2.2 Scaffolds; 6.2.3 Growth Factors; 6.2.4 Bioreactor; 6.2.5 Vascularization; 6.3 Valvular Tissue Engineering; 6.4 Blood Vessel Engineering; 6.5 Summary; References; 7 Lung Tissue Engineering; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Endogenous Stem and Progenitor Cells; 7.2.1 Proximal Airway; 7.2.2 Distal Airway; 7.2.3 Alveoli; 7.3 Exogenous Cells; 7.3.1 Embryonic Stem Cells; 7.3.2 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells 7.3.3 Mesenchymal Stem Cells7.4 Scaffolds; 7.4.1 Decellularized Lung Tissue; 7.5 Bioreactor; 7.6 Summary; References; 8 Bone and Cartilage Tissue Engineering; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Bone Anatomy; 8.2.1 Structure; 8.3 Osteogenesis (Bone Formation); 8.4 Bone Tissue Engineering; 8.4.1 Cells for BTE; 8.4.1.1 Mesenchymal Stem Cells; 8.4.1.2 Embryonic Stem Cells; 8.4.1.3 Adipose-derived Stem Cells; 8.4.1.4 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; 8.4.2 Growth Factors for BTE; 8.4.3 Scaffolds in BTE; 8.4.4 Vascularization; 8.5 Tendon Tissue Engineering; 8.5.1 Cells in TETs; 8.5.2 Growth Factors
• Publisher Details: London, UK : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 571.5/38; Tissue engineering; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology; Tissue engineering; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128092286; 0128092289
• Related ISBNs: 9780128053614
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed June 21, 2016).
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