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Biochemical Reactions and Enzyme Kinetics
Chemical Reactions Consider the following single-stage chemical reaction in which chemicals A and B react to form the product P,…
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Compartmental Modelling
Introduction Compartmental modelling describes the movement of a substance from one compartment to another. Its origins are based on the…
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Biological Considerations
Stem Cells It is now thought that essentially all tissues contain stem cell populations that can produce cellular progeny that…
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Hepatic, Neural, and Cardiovascular Cell Therapies
Other forms of cell therapies are being developed to treat complex tissues such as the liver, brain, and heart. It…
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Cartilage and Chondrocytes
Cartilage is an unusual tissue in that it is avascular, alymphatic, and aneural. It consists mostly of extracellular matrix in…
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Skin and Vascular Grafts
Skin is a highly proliferative and regenerative tissue. It consists of two main layers: the dermis, whose main cellular components…
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Bone Marrow Transplantation
Bone marrow is the body’s most prolific organ. It produces on the order of 400 billion myeloid cells daily, all…
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Tissue Engineering
What Is Tissue Engineering? Tissue engineering is a biomedical engineering discipline integrating biology with engineering to create tissues or cellular…
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Ceramics and Glasses
The advantages of the class of materials known as ceramics, which includes glasses, are that they are very biocompatible (particularly…
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Biomaterials
Materials In Medicine: From Prosthetics To Regeneration Throughout the ages, materials used in medicine (biomaterials) have made an enormous impact…
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Biomechanics
Introduction Biomechanics combines engineering and the life sciences by applying principles from classical mechanics to the study of living systems.…
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Cellular Organization
Although there are many smaller units such as enzymes and organelles that perform physiological tasks or have definable structures, the…