Membrane Systems : : For Bioartificial Organs and Regenerative Medicine / / Loredana De Bartolo, Efrem Curcio, Enrico Drioli.
Membrane processes today play a signifi cant role in the replacement therapy for acute and chronic organ failure diseases. Current extracorporeal blood purifi cation and oxygenation devices employ membranes acting as selective barriers for the removal of endogeneous and exogeneous toxins and for gas...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 Natural and synthetic membranes
- 2 Basic issues in membrane separation for biomedical devices
- 3 Artificial organs
- 4 Blood-membrane interactions
- 5 Engineering of membrane bio-hybrid organs
- 6 Cell-membrane interactions
- 7 Membrane bioartificial organs
- 8 Regulatory framework and ethical issues
- Index