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Title Cardiac tissue engineering [electronic resource] : principles, materials, and applications / Emil Ruvinov, Yulia Sapir, and Smadar Cohen.
Publication Info. [San Rafael, Calif.] : Morgan & Claypool, ©2012.

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Description 1 online resource.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Synthesis lectures on tissue engineering ; #9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Title from PDF title page (Morgan & Claypool, viewed Oct. 8, 2012).
Contents 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Cardiac tissue engineering -- 1.2 Objectives and scopes -- 1.3 Organization of the monograph -- Bibliography.
2. The heart, structure, cardiovascular diseases, and regeneration -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The heart and cardiac muscle structure -- 2.3 Myocardial infarction and heart failure -- 2.4 Cardiac extracellular matrix (ECM), its function and pathological changes after MI -- 2.5 Congenital heart defects -- 2.6 Endogenous myocardial regeneration -- 2.7 Potential therapeutic targets and strategies to induce myocardial regeneration -- Bibliography.
3. Cell sources for cardiac tissue engineering -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Sources for de novo cardiomyocytes for clinical applications -- 3.3 Contemporary alternatives, adult autologous stem and progenitor cells -- 3.4 Clinical trials and "paracrine effect" hypothesis of stem/progenitor cell transplantation -- 3.5 Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography.
4. Biomaterials, polymers, scaffolds, and basic design criteria -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Basic biomaterial design criteria -- 4.3 Biomaterial classification -- 4.4 Basic scaffold fabrication forms -- 4.5 Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography.
5. Biomaterials as vehicles for stem cell delivery and retention in the infarct -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Stem cell delivery by biomaterials -- 5.3 Clinical trials -- 5.4 Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography.
6. Bioengineering of cardiac patches, in vitro -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Cardiac cell entrapment in hydrogels, engineered heart tissue (EHT) -- 6.3 Cell sheet-based cardiac tissue engineering -- 6.4 Myocardial tissue grafts created in preformed implantable scaffolds -- 6.5 Biomimetic scaffolds and integration of cell-matrix interactions -- 6.6 Micro- and nanotechnology for scaffold fabrication -- 6.7 Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography.
7. Perfusion bioreactors and stimulation patterns in cardiac tissue engineering -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Bioreactor cultivation of engineered cardiac tissue -- 7.3 Inductive stimulation patterns in cardiac tissue engineering -- 7.4 Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography.
8. Vascularization of cardiac patches -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Prevascularization of the patch by incorporating endothelial cells (ECS) -- 8.3 The body as a bioreactor for patch vascularization -- 8.4 Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography.
9. Acellular biomaterials for cardiac repair -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Acellular implantable scaffolds for in situ tissue support -- 9.3 Decellularized ECM -- 9.4 Injectable biomaterials -- 9.5 First-in-man trial of intracoronary delivery of alginate biomaterial -- 9.6 Mechanism of biomaterial effects on cardiac repair -- 9.7 Immunomodulation of the macrophages by liposomes for infarct repair -- 9.8 Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography.
10. Biomaterial-based controlled delivery of bioactive molecules for myocardial regeneration -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Evolution of bioactive material approach for myocardial regeneration -- 10.3 Bioactive molecules for myocardial regeneration and repair -- 10.4 Scaffold- and hydrogel sheet-based molecule delivery -- 10.5 Injectable systems -- 10.6 Affinity-binding alginate biomaterial for multiple growth factor delivery -- 10.7 Summary and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Authors' biographies.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.
Subject Heart.
Tissue engineering.
Heart -- Diseases.
Myocardium -- Regeneration.
affinity binding
alginate
biomaterials
biomimetic
cardiac tissue engineering
cardiac patches
cardiomyocytes
cell delivery
cell therapy
drug delivery
extracellular matrix
growth factors
heart
hydrogels
heart failure
immunomodulation
liposomes
myocardial infarction
myocardial regeneration
paracrine effect
perfusion bioreactors
scaffolds
stem cells
stimulation
vascularization
Added Author Sapir, Yulia.
Cohen, Smadar, 1958-
Ebooks Corporation
Related To Print version: 9781608452040
ISBN 9781608452057 (electronic bk.)
1608452050 (electronic bk.)
9781608452040 (paperback)
UPC # 10.2200/S00437ED1V01Y201207TIS009 doi
OCLC # EBC967713
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