ABSTRACT

Focused on stem cell applications, this book bridges the fields of biomaterials, offering new insights into constructing and regenerating tissues and organs. Its unique feature is linking diseases of the human body to current thinking on how to deal with them in the context of current concepts and technologies by means of an in-depth focus on bioma

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PART I: INNOVATIVE BIOMATERIALS

chapter 1|34 pages

Synthetic Polymer-Network Based Materials in Stem Cell Research

Adam L. Sisson and Andreas Lendlein*

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PART II: STEM CELLS

chapter 7|29 pages

Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Junnian Zhou, Xinlong Yan, Jingxue Wang, Jiafei Xi, Haiyun Pei,Hailei Yao, Wen Yue* and Xuetao Pei*

chapter 8|16 pages

Umbilical Cord Matrix Cells—Promising Instrument for Regenerative Medicine

Maslova O.O., Deryabina O.G.* and Kordium V.A.

chapter 10|30 pages

Adipose Tissue: A New Source of Hepatic Cells

Ana Bonora-Centelles, Ramiro Jover Atienza, Vicente Mirabet Lis, José Vicente Castell Ripoll and MªJosé Gómez-Lechón*

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PART III: TRANSLATIONAL STRATEGIES

chapter 12|22 pages

Bioartifi cial Pancreas

chapter 13|27 pages

Trachea and Larynx in Regenerative Medicine

Silvia Baiguera, Massimo Jaus, Alessandro Gonfi otti and Paolo Macchiarini*

chapter 15|39 pages

Stem Cell Microencapsulation for Therapeutic Angiogenesis

Clara Sanz Nogués, Dilip Thomas, Abhay Pandit and Timothy O’Brien*

chapter 16|23 pages

Microencapsulation and Bioreactors for Liver Support

Murielle Dufresne, Nhu Mai Tran, Stéphanie Capone, Martine Daujat and Cecile Legallais*

chapter 17|27 pages

Mass Transfer and Computational Fluid-dynamics in Bioreactors

Efrem Curcio,* and Loredana De Bartolo

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PART IV: REGULATIONS AND ETHICAL ISSUES