Scaffolding In Tissue Engineering
Contributors: Peter X. Ma (Editor); Jennifer Elisseeff (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: August 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9781574445213
Subjects: Medical equipment & techniques; Scaffolding; Material Science; Technology; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Tissue engineering; Family & General Practice; Medical / Biotechnology; Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical; Polymers in medicine
First sentence: Biologically active scaffolds are highly porous materials based on simple analogs of the extracellular matrix (ECM) that have induced synthesis of tissues and organs.