Replacing animal models a practical guide to creating and using culture-based biomimetic alternatives / edited by Jamie Davies, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Other author Davies, Jamie A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell,
Descriptionxi, 201 p., [8] p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
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Contents Potential advantages of using biomimetic alternatives / Jamie Davies -- Overview of biomimetic alternatives / Jamie Davies -- Pancreatic islands / Eli C. Lewis -- Endometrial organoid culture / Merja Blauer -- Modelling lymphatic and blood capillary patterning / Francoise Bruyere ... [et al.] -- Precision-cut lung slices (PCLS) / Christian Martin and Stefan Uhlig -- Human colon tissue in organ culture / Michael K. Dame and James Varani -- Fetal organs culture / Jamie Davies -- Design of a mechanical loading device to culture intact bovine spinal motion segments under multiaxial motion / Jochen Walser, Stephen John Ferguson, and Benjamin Gantenbein-Ritter -- Magnetic assembly of tissue surrogates / Chien-Yu Fu and Hwan-You Chang -- Assembly of renal tissues by cellular self-organization / Mathieu Unbekandt -- Hierarchical screening of pathways: using cell and organ cultures to reduce use of transgenic mice / Guangping Tai and Jamie Davies -- Lung organoid culture to study response to viruses / Wenxin Wu, J. Leland Booth, and Jordan P. Metcalf -- Organ-cultured human skin for the study of epithelial cell invasion of stroma / James Varani -- Organotypic mandibular cultures for the study of inflammatory bone pathology / Alastair J. Sloan, Sarah Y. Taylor, and Emma L. Smith -- Three-dimensional, high-density and tissue engineered culture models of articular cartilage / Ali Mobasheri ... [et al.] -- Concluding remarks / Jamie Davies.
General noteIncludes index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012009483
ISBN9780470974254 (cloth)
ISBN0470974257 (cloth)
ISBN9781118231784 (pbk.)
ISBN1118231783 (pbk.)

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