Biomaterials, artificial organs and tissue engineering
Title:
Biomaterials, artificial organs and tissue engineering
Author:
Hench, Larry L., 1938-
ISBN:
9781613444047
9781845690861
Publication Information:
Boca Raton : CRC Press ; Cambridge : Woodhead, 2005.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 284 p.) : ill.
Series:
Woodhead Publishing in materials
Woodhead Publishing in materials.
General Note:
"Woodhead Publishing and Maney Publishing on behalf of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining."
Some online versions lack accompanying media packaged with the printed version.
Contents:
Introduction / Metals / Ceramics / Polymers / Biocomposites / Cells and tissues / Inflammation and wound healing / skeletal system / cardiovascular system / Biomedical polymers / Biomedical hydrogels / Repair of skeletal tissues / Joint replacement / Artificial organs / Mass transport processes in artificial organs / Artificial exchange systems / Cardiovascular assist systems / Introduction to tissue engineering
Abstract:
"Maintaining quality of life in an ageing population is one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century. This book and collection of illustrated CD lectures summarises how this challenge is being met by multi-disciplinary developments in specialty biomaterials, devices, artificial organs and in vitro growth of human cells as tissue-engineered constructs. Biomaterials, artificial organs and tissue engineering is intended for use as a textbook in a one-semester course for upper level BSc, MSc and MEng students."--BOOK JACKET.
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