Offers effective techniques to manipulate cells and growth factors successfully in the construction, restoration, and regeneration of tissues!

Tissue Engineering and Biodegradable Equivalents contains

• current strategies to increase the strength, flexibility, biostability, and biocompatibility of engineered sites
• modern procedures to maintain cell growth and provide response to muscle impulses and signals
• the means to prevent rejection of implanted tissues, infection, and structural breakdown, degradation, and fatigue

Offering real-world applications and state-of-the-art approaches to mimic normal tissue structure and function, Tissue Engineering and Biodegradable Equivalents is a timely and authoritative reference for biomedical, biomaterials, biotechnology, and tissue engineers and bioengineers, and surgeons and physicians who use biomaterials; and an outstanding text for upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and medical school students in these disciplines.