Tissue Science Technology

Description

The Bioengineering of tissues and organs, sometimes called tissue engineering and at other times regenerative medicine, is emerging as a science, technology, and an industry. The tissue is a cellular organizational level intermediate between cells and a complete organism. Hence, a tissue is an ensemble of cells, not necessarily identical, but from the same origin, that together carry out a specific function. An important component in the early development of tissue engineering was the parallel development of artificial biomaterials. In the mid- 1960s, artificial skin for burn victims was being pursued as a symptomatic therapy, and later, synthetic fibers were being tried as artificial skin grafts for burn treatment. In the early 1970s, there were concerted efforts to treat artificial surfaces to be used in implants in ways that would enable them to avoid causing blood coagulation, by applying special heparin complex coatings, for example. Tissue engineering is a newly emerging biomedical technology and methodology to assist and accelerate the regeneration and repairing of defective and damaged tissues based on the natural healing potentials of patients themselves. This book delves deep into the various applications of tissue engineering and will be useful to biotechnologists, biologists, agriculture scientists, researchers, teachers and students.