Cardiac Cell Culture Technologies Microfluidic and On-Chip Systems /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brzozka, Zbigniew (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Jastrzebska, Elzbieta (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Biomedical engineering.; Nanotechnology.; Cardiology.; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology.

Microfluidic systems for cardiac cell culture are discussed based on tested cells and the methods of cardiac cell stimulation; The use of stem cell stimulation into cardiac cells in microfluidic systems is discussed in the context of electrical, biochemical, physical, and mechanical stimulations; Pr...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Microfluidic Systems
• Lab-on-a-chip Systems for Cellomics - Materials and Technology
• Organ-on-a-chip Systems
• Biological Bases of Cardiac Function and the Pro-Regenerative Potential of Stem Cells in the Treatment of Myocardial Disorder
• Pluripotent and Mesenchymal Stem Cells - Challenging Sources for Derivation of Myoblast
• Microfluidic Systems for Cardiac Cell Culture - Characterization
• Heart-on-a-chip Systems
• Cardiac Cell Culture Microtechnologies Based on Stem Cells.