Tissue and Organ Regeneration in Adults

• Main Author: Yannas, Ioannis V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2001.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Molecular biology.; Dermatology.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Molecular Medicine.
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Why This Volume? The title of this volume reads like an oxymoron.After all, it is well known that,whether animal or human,adults do not spontaneously regenerate any of their organs that have been lost to accidental trauma or to surgery. If mammals could somehow regenerate organs such as the skin of...

Table of Contents:

• The Irreversibility of Injury
• Nonregenerative Tissues
• Anatomically Well-Defined Defects
• The Defect Closure Rule
• Regeneration of Skin
• Regeneration of a Peripheral Nerve
• Irreducible Processes for Synthesis of Skin and Peripheral Nerves
• The Antagonistic Relation Between Contraction and Regeneration
• Kinetics and Mechanism I: Spontaneous Healing
• Kinetics and Mechanism II: Induced Regeneration.