Scaffolding in Tissue Engineering reviews the general principles of tissue engineering and concentrates on the principles, methods, and applications for a broad range of tissue engineering scaffolds.

Features:

• Lays the fundamental principles behind reconstructing biologically functional tissues and organs
• Brings together a large number of experts in engineering, life sciences, and clinical medicine with various tissue engineering expertise
• Evaluates the latest materials and their biological interaction
• Studies how synthetic materials are manufactured
• Describes how scaffold structure can be modified to perform a specific biological function
• Surveys the various kinds of tissue that synthetic materials can replicate or regenerate

Contents

Scaffolding Materials

• Biologically Active Scaffolds based on Collagen-GAG Copolymers
• Alginate for Tissue Engineering
• Polysaccharides Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
• Role of Gelatin in the Release Carrier of Growth Factor for Tissue Engineering
• Fibrillar Fibrin Gels
• Photopolymerization of Hydrogel Scaffolds
• Poly(ortho esters)

Scaffold Fabrication Technologies

• Salt-Leaching for Polymer Scaffolds: Laboratory-Scale Manufacture of Cell Carriers
• Phase Separation for Polymer Scaffolds
• Solid Freeform Fabrication of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
• Gas Foaming to Fabricate Polymer Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering
• Injectable Systems for Cartilage Tissue Engineering
• Immunoisolation Techniques
• Self-Assembled Monolayers in Mammalian Cell Cultures
• PuraMatrix: Self-assembling Peptide Nanofiber Scaffolds

Materials Modifications and Properties

• Polymer/Ceramic Composite Scaffolds
• Polymer/Calcium Phosphate Scaffolds
• Hydroxyapatite/Collagen Scaffolds
• Bioactive Hydrogels: Mimicking the ECM with Synthetic Materials
• Albumin Modification
• Modified Alginates for Tissue Engineering
• Gene Delivery in Regenerative Medicine
• Degradation of Biodegradable Aliphatic Polymers

Tissue Engineering Applications

• Biomaterials for Genitourinary Tissue Engineering
• Engineered Blood Vessel Substitutes
• Tissue Engineering of Tendon and Ligament
• Tissue Engineering of the Cornea
• Materials Employed for Breast Augmentation and Reconstruction
• Scaffolding in Periodontal Engineering
• Tissue Engineering of Craniofacial Structure
• Hemoglobin-Based Red Blood Cell Substitutes
• Nerve Regeneration; Erin Lavik and Robert Langer
• Functional Tissue Engineering of Cartilage and Myocardium: Bioreactor Aspects
• Stem Cells in Tissue Engineering
• Osteochondral Tissue Engineering - Regeneration of Articular Condyle from Mesenchymal Stem Cells
• Tissue Engineered Meniscal Tissue
• Tissue Engineering for Insulin Replacement in Diabetes
• 3-D Tissue Fabrication: Application to Hepatic Tissue Engineering

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