Regenerative medicine and biomaterials for the repair of connective tissues /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton : Oxford :
CRC Press ; Woodhead Publishing,
2010.
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| Series: | Woodhead Publishing in materials.
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Table of Contents:
- The structure and regenerative capacity of synovial joint tissues
- The myofibroblast in connective tissue repair and regeneration
- The structure of articular cartilage
- Measuring the biomechanical properties of cartilage cells
- Understanding tissue response to cartilage injury
- Understanding osteoarthritis and other cartilage diseases
- Using animal models of cartilage repair to screen new clinical techniques
- Cartilage tissue repair : autologous osteochondral mosaicplasty
- Cartilage tissue repair : autologous chondrocyte implantation
- Cell sheet technologies for cartilage repair
- Cell therapies for articular cartilage repair : chondrocytes and mesenchymal stem cells
- Scaffolds for musculoskeletal tissue engineering
- Outcome measures of articular cartilage repair
- The structure of tendons and ligaments
- Tendon biomechanics
- Tendon injury and repair mechanisms
- Tissue engineering for ligament and tendon repair
- Cell-based therapies for the repair and regeneration of tendons and ligaments
- Scaffolds for tendon and ligament tissue engineering