Overview
- Editors:
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Jeffrey R. Morgan
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Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston
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Martin L. Yarmush
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Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston
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Table of contents (43 protocols)
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Materials
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- Lila J. Chamberlain, Ioannis V. Yannas
Pages 3-17
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- Susan J. Sofia, Philip R. Kuhl, Linda G. Griffith
Pages 19-33
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- Peter X. Ma, Robert Langer
Pages 47-56
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- S. Kadiyala, H. Lo, K. W. Leong
Pages 57-65
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- Timothy S. Girton, Narendra Dubey, Robert T. Tranquillo
Pages 67-73
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- Yi-Lin Cao, Clemente Ibarra, Charles Vacanti
Pages 75-83
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- Amarpreet S. Sawhney, Jeffrey A. Hubbell
Pages 85-100
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- Ravi V. Bellamkonda, Robert F. Valentini
Pages 101-119
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- Kenneth S. James, Mark C. Zimmerman, Joachim Kohn
Pages 121-131
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- Anna C. Jen, Susan J. Peter, Antonios G. Mikos
Pages 133-140
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Cells
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Front Matter
Pages 141-141
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- Gregory Oehrtman, Laura Walker, Birgit Will, Lee Opresko, H. Steven Wiley, Douglas A. Lauffenburger
Pages 143-154
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- John A. Faulkner, Susan V. Brooks, Robert G. Dennis
Pages 155-172
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- James R. Robbins, Mary B. Goldring
Pages 173-192
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Clinical Applications
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Front Matter
Pages 193-193
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- Sonya Shortkroff, Myron Spector
Pages 195-203
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- Ross Tubo, Francois Binette
Pages 205-215
About this book
In recent years, the field of tissue engineering has begun, in part, to c- lesce around the important clinical goal of developing substitutes or repla- ments for defective tissues or organs. These efforts are focused on many tissues including skin, cartilage, liver, pancreas, bone, blood, muscle, the vascu- ture, and nerves. There is a staggering medical need for new and effective treatments for acquired as well as inherited defects of organs/tissues. Tissue engineering is at the interface of the life sciences, engineering, and clinical medicine and so draws upon advances in cell and molecular biology, mate- als sciences, and surgery, as well as chemical and mechanical engineering. Such an interdisciplinary field requires a broad knowledge base as well as the use of a wide assortment of methods and approaches. It is hoped that by bringing together these protocols, this book will help to form connections - tween the different disciplines and further stimulate the synergism underlying the foundation of the tissue engineering field.
Reviews
"...will provide a very valuable laboratory aid for any researcher who wishes to enter the field. For the experienced cell biologist there are some gems of collected wisdom which he or she should find inspiring...a thoroughly recommended lab-bench book. . .This book should be in the library of every surgical research department. It is an excellent "how-to-do-it" work."-Journal of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
"This book, well-edited by Morgan and Yarmush, contains a nearly exhaustive series of protocols related to biomaterials, cells, composites of cells and biomaterials, and measurement techniques. The editors are known and respected in the field, and, as such, were able to attract some of the stalwart tissue engineering investigators. . . an indispensable aid to students and seasoned investigators in tissue engineering."-FEBS Letters
"...a weighty tome of over 600 pages which can really be considered a tour de force, a great achievement in both organizational and editing skills from Morgan and Yarmush, the editors. I found several of the contributions outstanding...a useful acquisition."-Cell Biology International
