Bioengineering Research of Chronic Wounds A Multidisciplinary Study Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gefen, Amit. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials, 1
• Subjects: Engineering.; Medicine.; Biochemistry.; Biology > Data processing.; Materials.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Molecular Medicine.; Medical Biochemistry.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00534-3

Pressure-related chronic wounds are an important health concern that affects millions of patients and accumulates billions in annual costs. These wounds may occur when soft tissues are mechanically compressed between bony prominences and a supporting surface. This book gives a complete and quantitat...

Table of Contents:

• Overview
• The mechanobiology and biochemistry in cells subjected to sustained mechanical deformations
• Metabolic transport in chronically loaded soft tissues
• Cell death and damage thresholds in mechanically loaded tissues
• Bioengineering aspects of the microcirculation of wounds and of angiogenesis in healing wounds
• Tissue engineering models of chronic wounds
• Computational models of cellular and molecular processes in chronic wound formation
• Computer models of tissue repair and regeneration
• Biomaterials and tissue engineering approaches for wound repair
• Biomaterials in wound dressing
• Biomaterials for controlled drug delivery in wound repair
• Proteomic approaches to quantify phases of wound healing.