Opis: Silk Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Silk is increasingly being used as a biomaterial for tissue engineering applications, as well as sutures, due to its unique mechanical and chemical properties. Silk Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine discusses the properties of silk that make it useful for medical purposes and its applications in this area. Part one introduces silk biomaterials, discussing their fundamentals and how they are processed, and considering different types of silk biomaterials. Part two focuses on the properties and behavior of silk biomaterials and the implications of this for their applications in biomedicine. These chapters focus on topics including biodegradation, bio-response to silk sericin, and capillary growth behavior in porous silk films. Finally, part three discusses the applications of silk biomaterials for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and biomedicine, with chapters on the use of silk biomaterials for vertebral, dental, dermal, and cardiac tissue engineering. Silk Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine is an important resource for materials and tissue engineering scientists, R&D departments in industry and academia, and academics with an interest in the fields of biomaterials and tissue engineering. * Discusses the properties and applications of silk for medical purposes* Considers pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical applicationsPart 1 Fundamentals and properties of silk for biomedical applications: The history and origin of silk; Processing of Bombyx mori silk for biomedical applications; Silk nanostructures based on natural and self engineered assembly; Biochemical and biophysical properties of native Bombyx mori silk for tissue engineering applications; Structure and properties of Spider and silkworm silk for tissue scaffolds; Bio-response to silk sericin; Biodegradation of silk. Part 2 Silk for biomaterials, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications: Silk based biomaterials in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; Non-mulberry Silk biomaterials in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; Silk powder for regenerative medicine; Silk scaffolds for 3D tumour modelling; Silk hydrogels for tissue engineering and dual drug delivery; Silk biomaterials for Intervertebral disc tissue engineering; Silk scaffolds for dental tissue engineering; Silk for cardiac tissue engineering; Silk for dermal tissue engineering; Capillary growth in porous silk films; Pharmaceutical and Cosmeceutical Applications of Silk.

Szczegóły: Silk Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Tytuł: Silk Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Producent: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9780857096999
Rok produkcji: 2014
Ilość stron: 582
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 1 kg

Recenzje: Silk Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine