Replacing animal models
Subtitle: a practical guide to creating and using culture-based biomimetic alternatives
By: edited by Jamie Davies
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470974254
Subjects: Biomimetics; Animal Models; Methods; Animal Testing Alternatives
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Potential advantages of using biomimetic alternatives / Jamie Davies; title: Overview of biomimetic alternatives / Jamie Davies; title: Pancreatic islands / Eli C. Lewis; title: Endometrial organoid culture / Merja Blauer; title: Modelling lymphatic and blood capillary patterning / Francoise Bruyere ... [et al.]; title: Precision-cut lung slices (PCLS) / Christian Martin and Stefan Uhlig; title: Human colon tissue in organ culture / Michael K. Dame and James Varani; title: Fetal organs culture / Jamie Davies; title: Design of a mechanical loading device to culture intact bovine spinal motion segments under multiaxial motion / Jochen Walser, Stephen John Ferguson, and Benjamin Gantenbein-Ritter; title: Magnetic assembly of tissue surrogates / Chien-Yu Fu and Hwan-You Chang; title: Assembly of renal tissues by cellular self-organization / Mathieu Unbekandt; title: Hierarchical screening of pathways: using cell and organ cultures to reduce use of transgenic mice / Guangping Tai and Jamie Davies; title: Lung organoid culture to study response to viruses / Wenxin Wu, J. Leland Booth, and Jordan P. Metcalf; title: Organ-cultured human skin for the study of epithelial cell invasion of stroma / James Varani; title: Organotypic mandibular cultures for the study of inflammatory bone pathology / Alastair J. Sloan, Sarah Y. Taylor, and Emma L. Smith; title: Three-dimensional, high-density and tissue engineered culture models of articular cartilage / Ali Mobasheri ... [et al.]; title: Concluding remarks / Jamie Davies.