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Title Therapeutic applications of cell microencapsulation / edited by José Luis Pedraz, Gorka Orive
Published New York : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 147 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 670
Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 670.
Contents Highlights and trends in cell encapsulation / Gorka Orive and José Luis Pedraz -- Biomaterials in cell microencapsulation / Edorta Santos [and others] -- Development of subsieve-size capsules and application to cell therapy / Shinji Sakai and Koei Kawakami -- Regulatory considerations in application of encapsulated cell therapies / J. van Zanten and Paul de Vos -- Treatment of diabetes with encapsulated islets / Paul de Vos, Milica Spasojevic and Marijke M. Faas -- Epo delivery by genetically engineered C2C12 myoblasts immobilized in microcapsules / Ainhoa Murua [and others] -- Artificial cell microencapsulated stem cells in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and cell therapy / Zun Chang Liu and Thomas Ming Swi Chang -- Microencapsulated choroid plexus epithelial cell transplants for repair of the brain / Christopher G. Thanos, Briannan Bintz and Dwaine F. Emerich -- Therapeutic application of cell microencapsulation in cancer / Brian Salmons and Walter H. Gunzburg -- Inorganic nanoporous membranes for immunoisolated cell-based drug delivery / Adam Mendelsohn and Tejal Desai -- Cell microencapsulation / Grace J. Lim [and others] -- Commercial applicability of cell microancapsulation : a review of intellectual property rights / Stephan M. Meier
Summary The advancement of science is ever more contingent upon the interaction of experts vast amount of scientific information being gathered every day that exceeds the ability of any one scientist to acquire. As an illustration of the frantic pace of scientific disc- more acute in the case of scientific fields at the interface of different and seemingly distant areas of study. Amidst these, the field of cell encapsulation brings together an array of diverse disciplines such as molecular biology and biopolymers, gene therapy and inorganic membranes, stem cell biology and physicochemistry, immunology and nanotechnology. Clearly, such range of topics is too broad for any individual scientist the state-of-the-art in the field of cell encapsulation. At the core of this technology, there is an interaction of physicochemical and biological elements forming three distinct layers of complexity. First, the chemistry of the biopolymer dictates the degree of protein adsorption, vascularization, tox- ity and biocompatibility of the microcapsules. Advances in biopolymer science are providing solutions to overcome existing challenges and to improve microcapsules as delivery vehicles. Second, the choice of cells, and more precisely the plethora of in determining the immune response elicited by the host to implanted microcapsules
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Animal cell biotechnology.
Microencapsulation.
Immobilized cells.
Cells, Immobilized
Drug Compounding -- methods
Drug Delivery Systems -- methods
MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Medical Technology.
MEDICAL -- Biotechnology.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Lasers in Medicine.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Biomedical.
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Immobilized cells
Animal cell biotechnology
Microencapsulation
Form Electronic book
Author Pedraz, José Luis.
Orive, Gorka.
ISBN 9781441957863
1441957863