Tissue Engineering: Engineering Principles for the Design of Replacement Organs and Tissues
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Author Description
Tissue or organ transplantation are among the few options available for patients with excessive skin loss, heart or liver failure, and many common ailments, and the demand for replacement tissue greatly exceeds the supply, even before one considers the serious constraints of immunological tissue type matching to avoid immune rejection. Tissue engineering promises to help sidestep constraints on availability and overcome the scientific challenges, with huge medical benefits. This book lays out the principles of tissue engineering. It will be a useful reference work for those associated with this field and as a textbook for specialized courses in the subject. It is a companion volume to Saltzman's OUP book on drug delivery.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This text investigates the fundamental engineering principles required to design and fabricate replacement organs and tissues to address the critical shortage of donor materials. W. Mark Saltzman, a professor of biomedical engineering, synthesizes current scientific knowledge to provide a structured framework for understanding how biological and engineering concepts intersect in regenerative medicine.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Principles of cell-material interactions
- Mathematical modeling of tissue growth and diffusion
- Analysis of scaffold design and bioreactor systems
- Case studies on skin, liver, and cardiac tissue replacement
Scope Limits
- Does not provide clinical surgical protocols
- Does not cover long-term patient outcome data for experimental therapies
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts identify this work as a foundational textbook for graduate-level biomedical engineering courses. Readers frequently note the technical density of the prose and the author's ability to bridge complex biological phenomena with quantitative engineering analysis.
Page Count:
537
Publication Date:
2004-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190286458
ISBN-13:
9780190286453
Science
textbook
Tissues
Biotechnology
Medicine
Tissue Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Medical
Allied Health