Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix

Biological, Chemical, Engineering, and Physiological Aspects
2006
ISBN: 978-1-4899-8616-0
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

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.

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.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cowin, S.S.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Organische Chemie Biochemie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Industrielle Biotechnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik, Medizinische Werkstoffe
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Biophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Angewandte Biologie Biophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

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.