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

Other author Davies, Jamie A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley - Blackwell,
Description1 online resource.
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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.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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Issued in other formPrint version: Replacing animal models Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, 2012 9780470974254
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012010703
ISBN9781119940982 (ePub)
ISBN9781119940678 (Adobe PDF)
ISBN9781119940999 ( MobiPocket)

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