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  title info:
    title: Biomechanics of Cells and Tissues
    sub title: Experiments, Models and Simulations
  name:
    name part: Lecca, Paola.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 168 p. online resource.
  abstract: The application of methodological approaches and mathematical formalisms proper to Physics and Engineering to investigate and describe biological processes and design biological structures has led to the development of many disciplines in the context of computational biology and biotechnology. The best known applicative domain is tissue engineering and its branches. Recent domains of interest are in the field of biophysics, e.g.: multiscale mechanics of biological membranes and films and filaments; multiscale mechanics of adhesion; biomolecular motors and force generation. Modern hypotheses, models, and tools are currently emerging and resulting from the convergence of the methods and philosophical approaches of the different research areas and disciplines. All these emerging approaches share the purpose of disentangling the complexity of organisms, tissues, and cells and mimicking the function of living systems. The contributions presented in this book are current research highlights of six challenging and representative applicative domains of phyisical, engineering, and computational approaches in medicine and biology, i.e tissue engineering, modelling of molecular structures, cell mechanics and cell adhesión processes, cancer physics, and physico-chemical processes of metabolic interactions. Each chapter presents a compendium or a review of the original results achieved by authors in the last years. Furthermore, the book also wants to pinpoint the questions that are still open and that could propel future research.
  table of contents: Preface -- Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering: application to the case of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Repair, by C.P. Laurent -- Process Modeling and Rendering of Biochemical Structures: Actin, by Ozan Kahramanogullari -- A model predicting rolling cells percentage in inflamed brain venules, by Paola Lecca -- Analysis and modeling of metabolism of cancer, by Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf -- Modelling the influence of cell signaling on the dynamics of gene regulatory networks, by Chiara Damiani -- Mechanistic models of astrocytic glucose metabolism calibrated on PET images, by Paola Lecca -- Author Biographies -- Subject Index.
  note: edited by Paola Lecca.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Bioinformatics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical analysis
  subject:
    topic: Analysis (Mathematics)
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Biological physics
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics and Biological Physics
  subject:
    topic: Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Analysis
  classification: R856-857
  classification: 610.28
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, 9
  identifier: 9789400758902
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5890-2
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    record creation date: 130125
    record change date: 20151125151454.0
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