Tendon Regeneration: Understanding tissue physiology and development to engineer functional substitutes

INDICE: SECTION I - Developmental biology and physiology of tendons 1. Developmental biology of tendons 2. Tendon physiology- composition, structure and tissue function/ Understanding the anatomy  and function of tendons 3. Tendon resident cells - function and features 4. Mechanobiology of tendons 5. Muscle-Tendon and Tendon-bone enthesis SECTION II - Pathologies and surgical reconstruction 6. Tendon tendinopathies 7. Reconstructive Surgery 8. Guidance strategies: sensitive biomarkers in health and injured tendons SECTION III - Regenerative Medicine Approaches 9. Cell based approaches to enhance tendon regeneration (tendon stem cells, other cell therapies) 10. GF  Based approaches in tendon stimulation 11. Scaffold based approaches (augmentation, acellular, .) 12. Tendon  Tissue Engineering (different possible combinations of scaffolds, cells and bioreactors) 13. Pre-clinical models for translating tendon regenerative medicine therapies 14. Future outcomes

• ISBN: 978-0-12-801590-2
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 12/06/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés