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Central Nervous System
Tissue Engineering
Current Considerations and Strategies
Synthesis Lectures on Tissue
Engineering
Editor
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou and J. Kent Leach, University of California, Davis
The Synthesis Lectures on Tissue Engineering series will publish concise books on aspects of a
field that holds so much promise for providing solutions to some of the most difficult problems of
tissue repair, healing, and regeneration. The field of Tissue Engineering straddles biology,
medicine, and engineering, and it is this multi-disciplinary nature that is bound to revolutionize
treatments for a plethora of tissue an problems. Central to Tissue Engineering is the use of
living cells with a variety of biochemical or biophysical stimuli to alter or maximize cellular
functions and responses. However, in addition to its therapeutic potentials, this field is making
significant strides in providing diagnostic tools.
Each book in the Series will be a self-contained treatise on one subject, authored by leading
experts. Books will be approximately 65-125 pages. Topics will include 1) Tissue Engineering
knowledge on particular tissues ans (., articular cartilage, liver, cardiovascular tissue), but
also on 2) methodologies and protocols, as well as 3) the main actors in Tissue Engineering
paradigms, such as cells, biomolecules, biomaterials, biomechanics, and engineering design. This
Series is intended to be the prehensive series of books in this exciting area.
Central Nervous SystemTissue Engineering: Current Considerations and Strategies
Ashley E. Wilkinson, Aleesha M. McCormick, and Nic D. Leipzig
2011
Biologic Foundations for Skeletal Tissue Engineering
Ericka M. Bueno and Julie Glowacki
2011
Regenerative Dentistry
Mona K. Marei
2010
Cells and Biomaterials for Intervertebral Disc Regeneration
Sibylle Grad, Mauro Alini, David Eglin, Daisuke Sakai, Joji Mochida, Sunil Mahor, Estelle Collin,
Biraja Dash, and Abhay Pandit
2010
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