Mechanobiology: Cartilage and Chondrocyte - Volume 5

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-58603-927-1
Verlag: IOS Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 73, 356 Seiten

Reihe: Biomedical and Health Research

This book covers the proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Mechanobiology of Cartilage and Chondrocyte. Mechanobiology can be now considered as a vigorous branch of biomechanics, biorheology and physiology mainly concerned with the study of the influence of mechanical forces on cells and tissues and their clinical or therapeutical applications. As we are now in the age of proteomics, genomics and cell micromechanical approaches, suing methods like laser tweezers or confocal microscopy, mechanobiology brings new challenges. With such new research, mechanobiology promises new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. In other respect there has been increasing interest over recent years in the fundamental role played by local mechanical parameters in chondrocyte regulations and cartilage dysfunctions as a first step in the development of osteoarthritis. These proceedings are sub-divided into four parts:

Theoretical approaches and mechanobiology of chondrocyte
Cartilage and chondrocyte studies
Osteoarthritis; inflammation degradation and clinical approaches
Cartilage engineering

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoltz, J.-F.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Molekulare Medizin, Zellbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie