Raimund Strehl

Tissue Engineering

Raimund Strehl

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.

Zukunftstechnologie Tissue Engineering

Raimund Strehl

Tissue engineering is a new and rapidly developed technology, which already does and will continue to benefit the world. The aim of tissue engineering is to generate alive, functional and normal tissue for clinical applications. Tissue engineers worldwide have set out to grow virtually every type of human tissue – liver, bone, muscle, cartilage, blood vessels, heart muscles, nerves, pancreatic islets, and more. Commercially produced skin is already available for use in treating patients with diabetic ulcers and burns. The new book introduces the reader to the necessary fundamentals of cellular development and tissue culture as well as to recent progress of artificial tissue and organ engineering.