Mechanobiology in Health and Disease
eBook - ePub

Mechanobiology in Health and Disease

  1. 527 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mechanobiology in Health and Disease

About this book

Mechanobiology in Health and Disease brings together contributions from leading biologists, clinicians, physicists and engineers in one convenient volume, providing a unified source of information for researchers in this highly multidisciplinary area. Opening chapters provide essential background information on cell mechanotransduction and essential mechanobiology methods and techniques. Other sections focus on the study of mechanobiology in healthy systems, including bone, tendons, muscles, blood vessels, the heart and the skin, as well as mechanobiology studies of pregnancy. Final chapters address the nascent area of mechanobiology in disease, from the study of bone conditions, skin diseases and heart diseases to cancer. A discussion of future perspectives for research completes each chapter in the volume.This is a timely resource for both early-career and established researchers working on mechanobiology.- Provides an essential digest of primary research from many fields and disciplines in one convenient volume- Covers both experimental approaches and descriptions of mechanobiology problems from mathematical and numerical perspectives- Addresses the hot topic of mechanobiology in disease, a particularly dynamic field of frontier science

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Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Contributors
  6. Foreword to mechanobiology in health and disease
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Chapter 1: Techniques for studying mechanobiology
  10. Chapter 2: Cell geometric control of nuclear dynamics and its implications
  11. Chapter 3: Mechanobiology throughout development
  12. Chapter 4: Cartilage mechanobiology: How chondrocytes respond to mechanical load
  13. Chapter 5: Advances in tendon mechanobiology
  14. Chapter 6: Bone mechanobiology in health and disease
  15. Chapter 7: Vascular mechanobiology, immunobiology, and arterial growth and remodeling
  16. Chapter 8: Mechanobiology of the heart valve interstitial cell: Simulation, experiment, and discovery
  17. Chapter 9: Platelet receptor-mediated mechanosensing and thrombosis
  18. Chapter 10: Mechanobiology of primary cilia in the vascular and renal systems
  19. Chapter 11: Neuromechanobiology
  20. Chapter 12: Mechanobiology of the eye
  21. Chapter 13: Gastrointestinal mechanosensory function in health and disease
  22. Chapter 14: Mechanobiology of skin diseases and wound healing
  23. Chapter 15: Mechanobiology of metastatic cancer
  24. Index