Tendon Regeneration: Understanding Tissue Physiology and Development to Engineer Functional Substitutes (Paperback)

Preface
Manuela E. Gomes, Marcia T. Rodrigues, Rui L. Reis
1.?Tendon Physiology and Mechanical Behavior: Structure-Function Relationships
2.?Tendon Resident Cells ? Function and Features
3.?Mechanobiology of Tendons
Section II ? Pathologies and repair of tendons
4.?Tendinopathies (I): Understanding Epidemiology, Pathology,? Healing and Treatment
5.?Tendinopathies (II): Etiology, Pathology, and Healing of Tendon Injury and Disease
Section III- Tendon Regenerative Medicine approaches
6.?Cell Based Approaches for Tendon Regeneration
7.?GF Approaches in Tendon Stimulation
Section IV ? Scaffolds-Based Approaches
8.?Scaffold-Based Approaches (I): Engineering anisotropic 2D and 3D structures for tendon repair and regeneration
9.?Scaffold-Based Approaches (II): Biological and synthetic based scaffolds for tendon regeneration
Section V ? Tendon Tissue Engineering
10.?Tendon TE: Hierarchical and Biomimetic Structures to Support the Regeneration of Tendon Tissues
11.?Tendon TE: Multifactoral Tendon Tissue Engineering Strategies
12.?Tendon TE: Combined Tissue Engineering Approach for the Regeneration of Tendons
13.?Tendon TE: Biomaterial scaffolds for tendon tissue engineering
14.?Pre-Clinical models for Tendon Translational Therapies
15.?Scaffold design for integrative tendon-bone repair