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Future strategies for tissue and organ replacement / editors, Julia M. Polak, Larry L. Hench, P. Kemp.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transplantation immunology.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (448 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Imperial College Press ; River Edge, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Several textbooks have been published that discuss just one or two of the areas concerning tissue and organ replacement. This important book brings together all the different approaches for the first time. The contributors are established experts in their respective fields.The multidisciplinary nature of the text will appeal to students, scientists and clinicians from a wide spectrum of disciplines who are considering a future in organ replacement therapy, as well as to those who have so far only learnt of the developments in organ transplantation or replacement in the lay media. The field is
- Contents:
- Preface; Foreword; List of Contributors; Contents; Section 1: New Developments on Materials; Chapter 1 ""Bioactive Materials for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds""; Section 2: New Horizons in Grafting Human Organs; Chapter 2 ""Low Temperature Preservation of Biological Organs and Tissues""; Chapter 3 ""Tissue Engineering: Clinical Applications and Mechanical Control""; Section 3: Tissue Engineering: The Construction of Living Organs for Replacement; Chapter 4 ""Recent Developments in Skin Substitutes""; Chapter 5 ""Tissue Engineering in the Musculoskeletal System""
- Chapter 6 ""Engineering the Liver""Chapter 7 ""Tissue Engineering of the Genitourinary System""; Chapter 8 ""Implantation of Kidney Rudiments""; Section 4: Xenotransplantation; Chapter 9 ""Xenotransplantation: Will Pigs Fly?""; Chapter 10 ""Therapeutic Strategies for Xenotransplantation""; Chapter 11 ""Encapsulation as a Strategy for Cell Xenotransplantation""; Chapter 12 ""The Immunologic Barriers of Xenotransplantation and Application of Genetic Engineering""; Section 5: Developmental Biology and Organ Replacement; Chapter 13 ""Stem Cells: Sources and Applications""
- Chapter 14 ""Possible Production of Spare Parts Using Methods of Developmental Biology""Section 6: Safety of Human Tissues and Cells; Chapter 15 ""Safety of Human Tissues and Cells for Transplantation""; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611869427
- 9781281869425
- 1281869422
- 9781860949647
- 1860949649
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