Chitosan Based Biomaterials Volume 2 (eBook, ePUB)

Tissue Engineering and Therapeutics
Redaktion: Jennings, Jessica Amber; Bumgardner, Joel David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Chitosan Based Biomaterials: Tissue Engineering and Therapeutics, Volume 2, provides the latest information on chitosan, a natural polymer derived from the marine material chitin. Chitosan displays unique properties, most notably biocompatibility and biodegradability. It can also be easily tuned to modify its structure or properties, making chitosan an excellent candidate as a biomaterial. Consequently, chitosan is being developed for many biomedical functions, ranging from tissue engineering and implant coatings to drug and gene delivery. This book provides readers with a full coverage of the applications of chitosan-based biomaterials.

• Presents specific focus on tissue engineering and therapeutics
• Provides comprehensive treatment of all biomaterial applications of chitosan
• Contains contributions by leading researchers with extensive experience in the material

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780081002568
• Artikelnr.: 46752928

Autorenporträt

Dr. Jessica Amber Jennings is a biomedical engineering researcher with expertise in wound healing, infection prevention, drug delivery, biomaterials, and biocompatibility. Her research has explored the effects of electric fields, biomaterials, and growth factors on cells during tissue healing and regeneration. Further, she has designed biomaterials to inhibit attachment of biofilm-forming bacteria to biomaterial surfaces to prevent infection. She has extensive experience in developing and testing composite materials incorporating the degradable biopolymer chitosan as a component, including coatings, films, microbeads, and lyophilized constructs. Her work includes engineering chitosan biomaterials for functionality in tissue regeneration, drug delivery, and infection prevention. She has authored or co-authored over 15 journal articles, one book chapter, 3 patent disclosures, and over 60 presentations and invited lectures. She has served as principle investigator or collaborator on several funded research projects from the Department of Defense, FedEx Institute of Technology, as well as foundation and industrial sponsors. She has mentored more than 10 undergraduate and graduate students in supervised research, several of which have won university research awards and fellowships. She is an active member in several professional organizations, including the Society for Biomaterials, Orthopaedic Research Society, and the Council for Undergraduate Research. She serves as an Early Career Reviewer for the NIH as well as panelist for the National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship and several other university and industrial proposals. She obtained her BS degree in Biomedical Science at The University of Alabama, and received the Presidential Scholarship as a National Merit Scholar. She completed her MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, receiving a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellow

ship. Her postdoctoral research was conducted in the lab of Warren Haggard, PhD at the University of Memphis from 2007-2010. Currently she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis in the Biomedical Engineering Department of the Herff College of Engineering (2010-present).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The role of nanotechnology and chitosan-based biomaterials for tissue engineering and therapeutic delivery

Part One. Chitosan for musculoskeletal tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
2. Chitosan for bone and cartilage regenerative engineering
3. Chitosan for tendon engineering and regeneration

Part Two. Chitosan for tissue engineering and regeneration of other tissues and organs
4. Chitosan-based biomaterials for treatment of diabetes
5. Chitosan for cardiac tissue engineering and regeneration

Part Three. Chitosan for the delivery of drugs and therapeutics
6. Chitosan for the delivery of antibiotics
7. Chitosan-based scaffolds for growth factor delivery
8. Chitosan for DNA and gene therapy
9. Antimicrobial applications of chitosan