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Biomaterials, artificial organs and tissue engineering /

"Maintaining quality of life in an ageing population is one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century. This book and collection of illustrated CD lectures summarises how this challenge is being met by multi-disciplinary developments in specialty biomaterials, devices, artificial organ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining
Otros Autores: Hench, Larry L., 1938-2015, Jones, Julian R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boca Raton : Cambridge : CRC Press ; Woodhead, 2005.
Colección:Woodhead Publishing in materials.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction / Larry L. Hench
  • 2. Metals / E. Jane Minay and Aldo R. Boccaccini
  • 3. Ceramics / Aldo R. Boccaccini
  • 4. Polymers / Robert G. Hill
  • 5. Biocomposites / Ian D. Thompson
  • 6. Cells and tissues / June Wilson Hench
  • 7. Inflammation and wound healing / June Wilson Hench
  • 8. skeletal system / Larry L. Hench
  • 9. cardiovascular system / M. John Lever
  • 10. Biomedical polymers / Robert G. Hill
  • 11. Biomedical hydrogels / Jason A. Burdick and Molly M. Stevens
  • 12. Repair of skeletal tissues / Larry L. Hench
  • 13. Joint replacement / Larry L. Hench
  • 14. Artificial organs / Julian R. Jones
  • 15. Mass transport processes in artificial organs / M. John Lever
  • 16. Artificial exchange systems / M. John Lever
  • 17. Cardiovascular assist systems / M. John Lever
  • 18. Introduction to tissue engineering / Lee D.K. Buttery and Anne E. Bishop.