Tissue Engineering and Novel Delivery Systems

Researchers in basic sciences, engineering, and medicine consider the properties, performance, and use of biomaterials as delivery or reconstructive vehicles. In sections on biocompatibility and the interface between biomaterial and tissue, tissue engineering equivalents, delivery systems, and emerging concepts in biomaterials, they discuss the role of extracellular matrix remodeling in advanced biocompatibility, principles of living organ reconstruction by tissue engineering, delivering growth factor by a cloned multipotent cell from bone marrow stroma potentiates bone repair, relationships between biomaterials and biosensors, and other topics. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Reviewer:Patricia Wong, MD(Stanford University Medical Center)
Description:This is a highly technical book covering virtually all aspects of medical applications for bioengineering. Researchers and engineers who invent tissue grafts, tissue adhesives, design drug delivery systems, genetic re-engineering, etc., will find this an invaluable reference.
Purpose:The purpose of the book is to provide the latest developments on bioengineering and their practical applications in the medical field. Exhaustive data is discussed in detail on gene therapy, cultured skin substitutes, and biodelivery systems for drugs and genes.
Audience:The audience is researchers and biomedical engineers.
Features:There is an amazing amount of research information. The chapter on auricular cartilage tissue engineering was fascinating. I was unaware of auricular cartilage being used as a cell source for penile prostheses. There is an excellent discussion on the viscoelastic properties of synovial fluid and how it provides joint protection because of its high deformation properties under movement. Of course, all of this is explained at the molecular level.
Assessment:This is an excellent in-depth discussion of the current knowledge on tissue engineering.