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Biomedical foams for tissue engineering applications /
Biomedical foams are a new class of materials, which are increasingly being used for tissue engineering applications. Biomedical Foams for Tissue Engineering Applications provides a comprehensive review of this new class of materials, whose structure can be engineered to meet the requirements of nut...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Woodhead Publishing,
�2014.
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| Colección: | Woodhead Publishing series in biomaterials ;
no. 76. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Biomedical Foams forTissue EngineeringApplications; Copyright; Contents; Contributor contact details; Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials; Part I Fundamentals, properties and modification of biomedical foams; 1 Introduction to biomedical foams; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Evolution of biomedical foams; 1.3 Materials for fabricating biomedical foams; 1.4 Manufacturing processes for biomedical foams and scaffolds; 1.5 Scaffolds for in vitro cell culture; 1.6 Scaffolds for in vivo tissue-induced regeneration; 1.7 Platforms for the controlled delivery of bioactive agents.
- 1.8 Microscaffolds for in situ cell deliveryand tissue fabrication1.9 Three-dimensional tumour models; 1.10 Conclusion; 1.11 References; 2 Properties of biomedical foams for tissue engineering applications; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Metals for biomedical foam fabrication; 2.3 Ceramics and glass for biomedical foam fabrication; 2.4 Degradable polymers for biomedical foam fabrication; 2.5 Polymer-based composites for biomedical foam fabrication; 2.6 Conclusions and future trends; 2.7 References; 3 Optimal design and manufacture of biomedical foam pore structure for tissue engineering applications.
- 3.1 Introduction3.2 Micro-structure of biomedical foams and processing techniques; 3.3 Improving control of scaffold pore structure by combined approaches; 3.4 Pore structure versus in vitro cell culture; 3.5 Pore structure vs. in vivo new tissue regeneration; 3.6 Conclusion; 3.7 References; 4 Tailoring the pore structure of foam scaffolds for nerve regeneration; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Materials for foam scaffold fabrication; 4.3 Design and fabrication of foam scaffolds for nerve regeneration; 4.4 Methods of assessing nerve regeneration and overview of porous scaffolds; 4.5 Future trends.
- 4.6 Conclusion4.7 References; 5 Tailoring properties of polymeric biomedical foams; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Aliphatic polyesters used for porous scaffold fabrication; 5.3 Polyurethanes for biomedical foam production; 5.4 Tyrosine-derived polymers; 5.5 Processing techniques for fabricating porous scaffolds; 5.6 Characterization of polymeric foams; 5.7 In vitro and in vivo testing; 5.8 Applications of polymeric foams in tissue engineering; 5.9 Future trends; 5.10 Sources of further information and advice; 5.11 References; 6 Biodegradable biomedical foam scaffolds; 6.1 Introduction.
- 6.2 Foaming techniques and properties of expanding polymer/gas solutions6.3 Biofoams based on natural polymers; 6.4 Biofoams based on biodegradable polyesters; 6.5 References; Part II Tissue engineering applications of biomedical foams; 7 Bioactive glass foams for tissueengineering applications; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Processing 'foam-like' bioactive glass-based scaffolds; 7.3 In vitro and in vivo studies of bioactiveglass-based biomedical foams; 7.4 Conclusions and future trends; 7.5 References; 8 Bioactive glass and glass-ceramic foam scaffolds for bone tissue restoration; 8.1 Introduction.