Biomimetic Materials and Design
Subtitle: Biointerfacial Strategies, Tissue Engineering, and Targeted Drug Delivery (Manufacturing Engineering & Materials Processing)
Contributors: Angela Dillow (Editor); Anthony Lowman (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: August 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 696
ISBN-13: 9780824707910
Subjects: Biotechnology; Medical equipment & techniques; General; Medical / Nursing; Drug targeting; Drug Delivery Systems; Physical Biochemistry; Science; Life Sciences - Biochemistry; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - General; Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical; Family & General Practice; Technology / Material Science; Biomimetic polymers; Pharmacology; Biomedical materials; Biomimetics
First sentence: The extracellular matrix (ECM) is in intricate network of multifunctional macromolecules that connect cells within a tissue and maintain the architecture of the body.