Full Description
The skin is the largest human organ system. Loss of skin integrity due to injury or illness results in a substantial physiologic imbalance and ultimately in severe disability or death. From burn victims to surgical scars and plastic surgery, the therapies resulting from skin tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are important to a broad spectrum of patients.
Skin Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine provides a translational link for biomedical researchers across fields to understand the inter-disciplinary approaches which expanded available therapies for patients and additional research collaboration. This work expands on the primary literature on the state of the art of cell therapies and biomaterials to review the most widely used surgical therapies for the specific clinical scenarios.
Contents
ForewordIntroduction1. Anatomy, Physiology, Histology, & Immunohistochemistry of Human Skin 2. Molecular & Cellular Biology of Wound Healing and Skin Regeneration 3. Tissue Processing and Staining for Histological Analyses4. Clinical Management of Wound Healing and Hypertrophic Scarring 5. Process development & Manufacturing of Human and Animal Acellular Dermal Matrices 6. Clinical Applications of Acellular Dermal Matrices in Reconstructive Surgery 7. Advances in Acellular Extracellular Matrices (ECM) for Wound Healing 8. Natural Biomaterials for Skin Tissue Engineering 9. Synthetic Biomaterials for Skin Tissue Engineering 10. Hybrid Biomaterials for Skin Tissue Engineering 11. Biologic Skin Substitutes 12. Wound Healing: A Comprehensive Wound Assessment and Treatment Approach 13. Current Innovations for the Treatment of Chronic Wounds 14. The Surgical Management of Burn Wounds 15. Advances in Isolation and Expansion of Human Cells for Clinical Applications16. Cutaneous Applications of Stem Cells for Skin Tissue Engineering 17. Advances in Biopharmaceutical Agents & Growth Factors for Wound healing & Scarring18. Skin Models for Drug Development & Biopharmaceutical Industry 19. Animal Models for Wound Healing 20. Human Skin Bioprinting: Trajectory & Advances 21. Translational Research of Skin Substitutes & Wound Healing Products
