Micro and nanotechnologies in engineering stem cells and tissues /

• Corporate Author: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Other Authors: Ramalingam, Murugan
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons ; [2013]; Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press, [2013]
• Series: IEEE Press series in biomedical engineering.
• Subjects: Stem cells.; Tissue engineering.; Microtechnology.; Nanotechnology.; Cell Engineering > methods.; Stem Cells > physiology.; Microtechnology > methods.; Nanotechnology > methods.; Tissue Engineering > methods.; MEDICAL > Embryology.; Electronic books.

A cutting-edge look at the application of micro and nanotechnologies in regenerative medicine The area at the interface of micro/nanotechnology and stem cells/tissue engineering has seen an explosion of activity in recent years. This book provides a much-needed overview of these exciting development...

Table of Contents:

• Stem cells and nanotechnology in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine / Rocky Tuan
• Nanofiber technology for controlling stem cell functions and tissue engineering / Seeram Ramakrishna, Shayanti Mukherjee
• Micro- and nanoengineering approaches to developing gradient biomaterials suitable for interface tissue engineering / Ali Khademhosseini, Serge Ostrovidov
• Microengineered polymer and ceramic-based biomaterial scaffolds : a topical review on design, processing, and biocompatibility properties / Bikramjit Basu, Garima Tripathi
• Synthetic enroutes to engineer electrospun scaffolds for stem cells and tissue regeneration / Seeram Ramakrishna, Radhakrishnan Sridhar
• Integrating top-down and bottom-up scaffolding tissue engineering approach for bone regeneration / Esmaiel Jabbari, Yunzhi Yang
• Characterization of the adhesive interactions between cells and biomaterials / John Fisher
• Microfluidic formation of cell-laden hydrogel modules for tissue engineering / Shoji Takeuchi, Yuya Morimoto
• Micro- and nanospheres for tissue engineering / John Jansen
• Micro and nano technologies to engineer bone regeneration / Balaji Sitharaman
• Micro and nanotechnology for vascular tissue engineering / Laura Suggs
• Application of stem cells in ischemic heart disease / Gangapatnam Subrahmanyam, Ravi Shankar.