Biointegration of medical implant materials : Science and design /
Chandra P. Sharma (ed.).
- Boca Ratón : CRC Press, 2010.
- xv.; 412 p. : figuras, tablas
- Woodhead publishing in materials .
Biointegration: an introduction - Soft tissue biointegration - Replacement materials for facial reconstruction at the soft tissue-bone interface - Corneal tissue engineering - Tissue engineering for small-diameter vascular grafts - Stem cells for organ regeneration - Materials facilitating protein drug delivery and vascularisation - Inorganic nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery - Alginate-based drug delivery devices - Functionalised nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery - Biocompatibility of materials and its relevance to drug delivery and tissue engineering - Mechanisms of failure of medical implants during long-term use - Rapid prototyping in biomedical engineering: structural intricacies of biological materials.