Tissue Engineering

Essentials for Daily Laboratory Work

Minuth, Will W. / Strehl, Raimund / Schumacher, Karl

1. Edition January 2005
XII, 314 Pages, Hardcover
175 Pictures
30 tables
Practical Approach Book

ISBN: 978-3-527-31186-6

Wiley-VCH, Weinheim

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Comprehensive in its scope and illustrated in detail, this practical book provides a fundamental insight into the complex world of tissue development and artificial cell culture using tissue engineering.
Backed by an exceptionally extensive glossary containing some 1,000 key words from the fields of cell biology, cell culture development and tissue engineering.

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Comprehensive in its scope and illustrated in detail, this practical book provides a fundamental insight into the complex world of tissue development and artificial cell culture using tissue engineering.
The introductory chapters cover basic cell biology and cellular development as well as cell culture, with a main emphasis on ways of differentiating tissue and the critical evaluation of the properties of maturing tissue constructs. The authors also focus on the use of stem cells from the most varied sources in tissue engineering.
The whole is rounded off by an exceptionally wide-ranging glossary containing some 1,000 key words from the fields of cell biology, cell culture development and tissue engineering.

· Cellular Development
· Cells and Tissues
· Methods in Cell Culture
· Concepts of Tissue Engineering
· Maturation of Tissue Constructs
· Innovation - Tissue Factory
· Quality Management
· Perspectives
Anex:
· Glossary
· List of Companies

"This book is fun to read because it covers a lot of ground quickly ... an excellent resource for students who are interested in learning the 'big picture.'"
Doody's Health Services

"... well written, comprehensive in its scope, and illustrated in detail, providing a broad insight into the world of tissue engineering."
Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Will W. Minuth has been Professor for Anatomy at the University of Regensburg since 1989; Philip Morris Research Prize "Challenge of the Future" in 1992 for his development of an innovative cell culture system; co-founded Minucells and Minutissue GmbH in 1993; member of the German Academy for Transplantation Medicine; currently developing new strategies for the manufacture of tissue constructs; and expert advisor to international research projects in the field of tissue engineering.

Raimund Strehl began studying biology at the University of Regensburg and Arizona State University, Arizona in 1988; doctorate at the University of Regensburg from 1997 onwards; began postdoc at the Sahlgrenska Sjuikhuset, Gothenburg; and at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Regensburg in 2000.

Karl Schumacher started studying human medicine at Bonn University in 1985; doctorate in 1993 at the Pathological Institute in Bonn; from 1993 onwards intern at the Urological Clinic and Children's Urological Clinic of Bonn University and the surgical unit of the teaching hospital in Mechenich; since 1998 scientist at the Anatomic Institute of the University of Regensburg.