Screen LibraryBiomaterials, artificial organs and tissue engineering /
"Maintaining quality of life in an ageing population is one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century. This book and collection of illustrated CD lectures summarises how this challenge is being met by multi-disciplinary developments in specialty biomaterials, devices, artificial organ...
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CRC Press ; Woodhead,
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| Publisher Address: | Boca Raton : Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodhead Publishing in materials
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781855737372 |
| Summary: |
"Maintaining quality of life in an ageing population is one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century. This book and collection of illustrated CD lectures summarises how this challenge is being met by multi-disciplinary developments in specialty biomaterials, devices, artificial organs and in vitro growth of human cells as tissue-engineered constructs. Biomaterials, artificial organs and tissue engineering is intended for use as a textbook in a one-semester course for upper level BSc, MSc and MEng students."--Jacket. |
| Item Description: |
"Woodhead Publishing and Maney Publishing on behalf of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining." Some online versions lack accompanying media packaged with the printed version. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781613444047 1613444044 1845690869 9781845690861 |
| Index Number: | R857 |
| CLC: | R318.08 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Metals / Ceramics / Polymers / Biocomposites / Cells and tissues / Inflammation and wound healing / skeletal system / cardiovascular system / Biomedical polymers / Biomedical hydrogels / Repair of skeletal tissues / Joint replacemen |