Biomaterials from Nature for Advanced Devices and Therapies [Hardcover]

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CONTRIBUTORS xix

PREFACE xxix

PART I 1 Collagen-Based Porous Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering 3
Guoping Chen and Naoki Kawazoe

1.1 Introduction, 3

1.2 Collagen Sponges, 4

1.3 Collagen Sponges with Micropatterned Pore Structures, 7

1.4 Collagen Sponges with Controlled Bulk Structures, 10

1.5 Hybrid Scaffolds, 12

1.6 Conclusions, 13

References, 14

2 Marine Collagen Isolation and Processing Envisaging Biomedical Applications 16
Joana Moreira-Silva, Gabriela S. Diogo, Ana L. P. Marques, Tiago H. Silva, and Rui L. Reis

2.1 Introduction, 16

2.2 Extraction of Collagen from Marine Sources, 18

2.3 Collagen Characterization, 22

2.4 Marine Collagen Wide Applications, 25

2.5 Final Remarks, 32

Acknowledgements, 34

References, 34

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