Clinical Applications of Biomaterials : State-of-the-Art Progress, Trends, and Novel Approaches /

This book examines the most novel and state-of-the-art applications of biomaterials, with chapters that exemplify approaches with targeted drug delivery, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases and cranioplasty implants. Expert contributors analyze biomaterials such as calcium phosphate, sol-gel and qu...

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Other Authors: Kaur, Gurbinder (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. How Did Bioactive Glasses Revolutionize Medical Science? A Tribute to Larry Hench
  • 2. Variation in Properties of Bioactive Glasses After Surface Modification
  • 3. Apatites for Orthopaedic Applications
  • 4. Calcium Phosphate Cements for Medical Applications
  • 5. Calcium Orthophosphate-Based Bioceramics and its Clinical Applications
  • 6. Nanostructured Calcium Phosphates for Drug, Gene, DNA, and Protein Delivery and as Anticancer Chemotherapeutic Devices
  • 7. Synthesis and Functionalization of Mesoporous Bioactive Glasses for Drug Delivery
  • 8. Bioactive Glass/Polymer Composites for Drug Delivery
  • 9. Restorative Dental Glass-ceramics: Current Status and Trends
  • 10. Bioactive Glass Based Composites for Cranioplasty Implants
  • 11. Antibacterial Properties of Bioactive Glasses
  • 12. Development of URISTâ„¢ a Multiphasic rhBMP-2 Bone Graft Substitute
  • 13. Development and in Vitro Analysis of a New Biodegradable PLA/HAp Composite for Biomedical Applications
  • 14. Biomaterials for Cell Encapsulation: Progress towards Clinical Applications. .