Functional Tissue Engineering - Guilak, Farshid; Butler, David L.; Goldstein, Steven A.; Mooney, David; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2003)
The Functional Properties of Native Tissues -- How Does Nature Build a Tissue? -- Ligament Healing: Present Status and the Future of Functional Tissue Engineering -- Native Properties of Cardiovascular Tissues: Guidelines for Functional Tissue Engineering -- Functional Properties of Native Articular Cartilage -- Excitability and Contractility of Skeletal Muscle: Measurements and Interpretations -- Functional Requirements of Engineered Tissues -- Functional Requirements for the Engineering of a Blood Vessel Substitute -- In Vivo Force and Strain of Tendon, Ligament, and Capsule -- Requirements for Biological Replacement of the Articular Cartilage at the Knee Joint -- Functional Requirements: Cartilage -- Design Parameters for Tissue Engineering -- Design Parameters For Functional Tissue Engineering -- Tissue Engineering a Heart: Critical Issues -- Design Parameters for Engineering Bone Regeneration -- Tissue Engineering of Bone: The Potential Use of Gene Therapy for Difficult Bone Loss Problems -- Engineered Skeletal Muscle: Functional Tissues, Organs, and Interfaces -- Bioengineering the Growth of Articular Cartilage -- Assessment of Junction in Engineered Tissues -- Functional Tissue Engineering: Assessment of Function in Tendon and Ligament Repair -- The Role of Mechanical Forces in Tissue Engineering of Articular Cartilage -- Biomechanics of Native and Engineered Heart Valve Tissues -- Assessment of Function in Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts -- Assessment of the Performance of Engineered Tissues in Humans Requires the Development of Highly Sensitive and Quantitative Noninvasive Outcome Measures -- Cell-Matrix Interactions in Functional Tissue Engineering -- Functional Tissue Engineering and the Role of Biomechanical Signaling in Articular Cartilage Repair -- Regulation of Cellular Response to Mechanical Signals by Matrix Design -- Artificial Soft Tissue Fabrication from Cell-Contracted Biopolymers -- Cytomechanics: Signaling to Mechanical Load in Connective Tissue Cells and Its Role in Tissue Engineering -- Bioreactors and the Role of Biophysical Stimuli in Tissue Engineering -- The Role of Biomechanics in Analysis of Cardiovascular Diseases: Regulation of the Fluid Shear Response by Inflammatory Mediators -- A Full Spectrum of Functional Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessels: From Macroscopic to Microscopic -- Engineering Functional Cartilage and Cardiac Tissue: In vitro Culture Parameters -- Tissue Engineering Skeletal Muscle -- Regulatory and Clinical Tissues in Tissue Engineering -- From Concept Toward the Clinic: Preclinical Evaluation of Tissue-Engineered Constructs -- Trends in the FDA.
Keywords: Cell biology; Orthopedics; Biomedical engineering; Cell Biology; Orthopedics; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering