Silver / Cowin Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix

Biological, Chemical, Engineering, and Physiological Aspects
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-387-28176-6
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten, eBook

Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix is the only single authored text on biological polymers available for bioengineering and biomedical engineering students. This book describes the structure of polymers and how these molecules are put together to make the tissues of the body and also their role in surgical implants and in structural diseases. Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix is intended to serve as a textbook at the graduate and advanced undergraduate level in a biomedical engineering curriculum.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silver, Frederick H.

Cowin, S.S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cowin, S.S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

to Mechanochemical Transduction in Tissues.- Macromolecular Structures in Tissues.- Microscopic and Macroscopic Structure of Tissues.- Determination of Physical Structure and Modeling.- Self-Assembly of Biological Macromolecules.- Mechanical Properties of Biological Macromolecules.- Viscoelastic Mechanical Properties of Tissues.- Models of Mechanical Properties of ECMs.- Mechanochemical Sensing and Transduction.- Mechanochemical Transduction and Its Role in Biology.

Über Autor(innen)

Frederick H. Silver, Ph.D., is an expert on the effect of mechanical forces on extracellular matrix. He has been a faculty member in Biomedical Engineeering departments at Boston University, University of Minnesota and Rutgers University. He is currently Professor of Pathology and Laboratory medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.