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Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Repair Strategies

  • 1 Edición - 29 de octubre de 2019
  • Última edición
  • Editores: Giuseppe Perale, Filippo Rossi
  • Idioma: Inglés

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Repair Strategies provides researchers the latest information on potential regenerative approaches to spinal cord injury, specifically focusing on therap… Leer más

Descripción

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Repair Strategies provides researchers the latest information on potential regenerative approaches to spinal cord injury, specifically focusing on therapeutic approaches that target regeneration, including cell therapies, controlled drug delivery systems, and biomaterials. Dr. Giuseppe Perale and Dr. Filippo Rossi lead a team of authoritative authors in academia and industry in this innovative reference on the field of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. This book presents all the information readers need to understand the current and potential array of techniques, materials, applications and their benefits for spinal cord repair.

Puntos claves

  • Covers current and future repair strategies for spinal cord injury repair
  • Focuses on key research trends, clinics, biology and engineering
  • Provides fundamentals on regenerative engineering and tissue engineering

De interès para

Researchers in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and neuroscience. Researchers in Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering

Índice

1. Introduction to spinal cord injury as clinical pathology

2. Spinal cord injury: role of neurophysiology

3. Conventional treatments and surgical margins of maneuvering for spinal cord injury management

4. MRI as an imaging tool for in vivo noninvasive morphological and (partially) functional examination of injured spinal cord

5. Spinal cord injury: ethical issues

6. Elements of material science and polymeric biomaterials

7. Soft and rigid scaffolds for spinal cord injury regeneration

8. Nanomaterials for spinal cord injury (SCI) regeneration

9. Cell therapies for spinal cord injury regeneration

10. Functional properties of progenitor-like cells in the spinal cord: implications for self-repair

11. Paracrine effects for spinal cord injury regeneration

12. Pharmacological therapies and factors delivery for spinal cord injury regeneration

13. Reliability on animal models

14. Fundamentals and application of modeling in support of spinal cord injury repair strategies

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 30 de octubre de 2019
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los editores

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Giuseppe Perale

Giuseppe Perale is currently Professor of Regenerative Medicine at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Southern Switzerland (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, and visiting Professor at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology in Vienna, Austria
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, University of Southern Switzerland (USI), Switzerland; Visiting Professor, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Vienna, Austria

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Filippo Rossi

Filippo Rossi is Associate Professor in Applied Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta” at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research focused on innovative polymer materials for nanomedicine, drug delivery, biosensors, and tissue engineering, both experimental and modeling techniques.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Associate Professor, Applied Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta” of Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy

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