Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix: Biological, Chemical, Engineering, and Physiological Aspects - Hardcover

Silver, Frederick H.

 
9780387256313: Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix: Biological, Chemical, Engineering, and Physiological Aspects
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0387256318 ISBN 13: 9780387256313
Publisher: Springer, 2006

Synopsis

Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix is the only single authored text on biological polymers available for bioengineering and biomedical engineering students. This book describes the structure of polymers and how these molecules are put together to make the tissues of the body and also their role in surgical implants and in structural diseases.

Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix is intended to serve as a textbook at the graduate and advanced undergraduate level in a biomedical engineering curriculum.

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About the Author

Frederick H. Silver, Ph.D., is an expert on the effect of mechanical forces on extracellular matrix. He has been a faculty member in Biomedical Engineeering departments at Boston University, University of Minnesota and Rutgers University. He is currently Professor of Pathology and Laboratory medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

From the Back Cover

Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix offers the reader recent information in addition to models of how mechanical information is transduced into genetic and biochemical changes at the cellular and tissue levels. Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix is intended to serve as a textbook at the graduate and advanced undergraduate level in a biomedical engineering curriculum.

Topics covered include:

  • Structure of Macromolecules That Make Up Tissue Structure

  • Microscopic and Macroscopic Tissue Structures

  • Methods For Analyzing Macromolecular Structure and Physical Properties

  • Self-Assembly of Biological Macromolecules Involved In Mechanotransduction

  • Mechanical Properties of Biological Macromolecules

  • Viscoelastic Properties of Macromolecules and Tissues

  • Models of Mechanical Properties of Tissues

  • Mechanochemical Sensing and Transduction

  • Mechanochemical Transduction and Its Role in Biology

Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix is essential reading for biomedical engineers, biologists, physicians, health care professionals and other biomedical researchers who are interested in understanding how physical forces affect the biology, physiology and pathophysiology of humans.

About the Author:

Frederick H. Silver, Ph.D., is an expert on the effect of mechanical forces on extracellular matrix. He has been a faculty member in Biomedical Engineeering departments at Boston University, University of Minnesota and Rutgers University. He is currently Professor of Pathology and Laboratory medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0387256318
ISBN 13 
9780387256313
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
308

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