Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix: Biological, Chemical, Engineering, and Physiological Aspects

by Frederick H. Silver

Book Overview

This is the only single authored text on biological polymers available for bioengineering and biomedical engineering students. The book describes the structure of polymers and how these molecules are put together to make the tissues of the body and also their role in surgical implants and in structural diseases. It provides essential reading for biomedical engineers, biologists, physicians, health care professionals and other biomedical researchers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387256318
• ISBN13: 9780387256313
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"