Tissue Engineering for Artificial Organs (eBook)

MD Anwarul Hasan is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar. He is also an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, as well as a visiting Scientist at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA. Prior to joining his current positions, Dr. Hasan was an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Medical School and MIT. Dr Hasan obtained his PhD from University of Alberta, Canada in 2010 and worked at Alberta Innovates Technology Futures in Edmonton, Canada and Champion Technologies LTD in Calgary, Alberta, Canada during 2010-2011. Dr. Anwarul Hasan has authored more than 60 journal and conference papers. He is a winner of more than sixteen national and international awards. Dr Hasan's research interests include Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering particularly for cardiovascular, musculoskeletal and neural applications.

PART I. TISSUE ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS
Tissue Engineering: Past, Present and Future
Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering: Prospects and challenges
Stem Cells and other Cell Sources: Prospects and Challenges
Microfluidics in Tissue Engineering
Bioreactors in Tissue Engineering
Biosensors in Tissue Engineering
PART II. TISSUE ENGINEERED ARTIFICIAL ORGANS
Wound Healing and Tissue Engineered
Cartilage Tissue Engineering
Tissue Engineering of Liver
Tissue Engineered Blood Vessel
Tissue Engineering of Lungs
Tissue Engineering for Cardiac Tissues
Heart Valve Tissue Engineering
Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering- Bone, Ligament, tendon
Tissue Engineered Trachea
Tissue Engineering of Pancreas
Tissue Engineering of Renal Tissue (Kidney)
Bone Tissue Engineering
Neural Tissue Engineering
Brain Tissue Engineering
Concluding Remarks
FUNDAMENTALS
Introduction to Tissue Engineering
Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering
Harnessing the Potential of Stem Cells from Different Sources for Tissue Engineering
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Scaffold-Based Tissue Engineering
Biosensors for Optimal Tissue Engineering: Recent Developments and Shaping the Future
Bioreactors in Tissue Engineering

APPLICATIONS
Tissue-Engineered Human Skin Equivalents and Their Applications in Wound Healing
Articular Cartilage Tissue Engineering
Liver Tissue Engineering
Development of Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessels
Engineering Trachea and Larynx
Pulmonary Tissue Engineering
Cardiac Tissue Engineering
Approaches and Recent Advances in Heart Valve Tissue Engineering
Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering: Tendon, Ligament, and Skeletal Muscle Replacement and Repair
Bone Tissue Engineering: State of the Art, Challenges, and Prospects
Tissue Engineering of the Pancreas
Tissue Engineering of Renal Tissue (Kidney)
Design and Engineering of Neural Tissues
Neural-Tissue Engineering Interventions for Traumatic Brain Injury
Bionics in Tissue Engineering