Tissue Engineering and Biodegradable Equivalents

de Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski

Offers effective techniques to manipulate cells and growth factors successfully in the construction, restoration, and regeneration of tissues!Tissue Engineering and Biodegradable Equivalents containscurrent strategies to increase the strength, flexibility, biostability, and biocompatibility of engineered sites modern procedures to maintain cell growth and provide response to muscle impulses and signalsthe means to prevent rejection of implanted tissues, infection, and structural breakdown, degradation, and fatigue Offering real-world applications and state-of-the-art approaches to mimic normal tissue structure and function, Tissue Engineering and Biodegradable Equivalents is a timely and authoritative reference for biomedical, biomaterials, biotechnology, and tissue engineers and bioengineers, and surgeons and physicians who use biomaterials; and an outstanding text for upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and medical school students in these disciplines.