Main description:

Repair and regeneration of musculoskeletal tissues is generating substantial interest within the biomedical community. Consequently, these are the most researched tissues from the regeneration point of view. Regenerative Engineering of Musculoskeletal Tissues and Interfaces presents information on the fundamentals, progress and recent developments related to the repair and regeneration of musculoskeletal tissues and interfaces. This comprehensive review looks at individual tissues as well as tissue interfaces. Early chapters cover various fundamentals of biomaterials and scaffolds, types of cells, growth factors, and mechanical forces, moving on to discuss tissue-engineering strategies for bone, tendon, ligament, cartilage, meniscus, and muscle, as well as progress and advances in tissue vascularization and nerve innervation of the individual tissues. Final chapters present information on musculoskeletal tissue interfaces.

Contents:

Part One: Basic Elements of Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering

1. Biomaterials and Scaffolds for musculoskeletal tissue engineering

2. Cells for musculoskeletal tissue engineering

3. Growth Factors for musculoskeletal tissue engineering

4. Mechanical Forces in musculoskeletal tissue engineering

Part Two: Individual Musculoskeletal Tissues

5. Bone tissue engineering

6. Cartilage tissue engineering

7. Ligament tissue engineering

8. Tendon tissue engineering

9. Meniscus tissue engineering

10. Muscle tissue engineering

11. Vascularization of engineered musculoskeletal tissues

12. Neural Innervation of engineered musculoskeletal tissues

Part Three: Musculoskeletal Tissue Interfaces

13. Bone-Cartilage interface

14. Bone-Tendon interface

15. Bone-Ligament interface

16. Bone-Meniscus interface

17. Muscle-Tendon interface