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 Info | Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, |
| Description | xi, 201 p., [8] p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012009483 |
| ISBN | 9780470974254 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0470974257 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781118231784 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1118231783 (pbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |