Engineering Biomaterials for Neural Applications
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Beschreibung
This contributed volume explores the ways in which researchers engineer new biomaterials for the challenging problems of the peripheral and central nervous systems. These biomaterials are uniquely positioned for use in creating in vitro models of injury and disease, testing therapeutic treatments, understanding neural development, and mapping the multi-scalar environment of the brain. This book informs readers from biology, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and neuroscience on cutting edge research in engineering technologies, from fundamental material development through pre-clinical studies. The book also highlights target applications in three areas of research: (1) engineering neural models and materials, (2) probing biological underpinnings of neurological function and disease, and (3) designing therapeutic and diagnostic treatments for neurological disease.
This contributed volume explores the ways in which researchers engineer new biomaterials for the challenging problems of the peripheral and central nervous systems. These biomaterials are uniquely positioned for use in creating in vitro models of injury and disease, testing therapeutic treatments, understanding neural development, and mapping the multi-scalar environment of the brain. This book informs readers from biology, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and neuroscience on cutting edge research in engineering technologies, from fundamental material development through pre-clinical studies. The book also highlights target applications in three areas of research: (1) engineering neural models and materials, (2) probing biological underpinnings of neurological function and disease, and (3) designing therapeutic and diagnostic treatments for neurological disease.
Explores how biomaterial-based technologies are clinically implemented to address problems in the central nervous system Covers contemporary research in engineering technologies from material development through pre-clinical studies Highlights certain therapeutic and diagnostic interventions for neurological disease
Autor*in
Elizabeth Nance
Themen in »Engineering Biomaterials for Neural Applications«
Biomaterials Nanomaterials hydrogels polymers neuroimaging nanotechnology neurological disorders neural repair central nervous system disease neurotherapeutic brain injury spine injury astrocytes neurons microglia