WOUND HEALING BIOMATERIALS - VOLUME 1

• Part One Fundamentals and strategies for wound healing
1 Wound healing
2 Growth factors in fetal and adult wound healing
3 Targeting the myofibroblast to improve wound healing
4 Manipulating the healing response
5 Manipulating inflammation to improve healing
6 Modelling wound healing
• Part Two Therapeutics and tissue regeneration for wound healing
7 Stem cell therapies for wounds
8 Living cell products as wound healing biomaterials: current and future modalities
9 Biomaterials for dermal substitutes
10 Engineering the tissue-wound interface: harnessing topography to direct wound healing
11 Autologous cell-rich biomaterial (LeucoPatch) in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers

Wound Healing Biomaterials: Volume One, Therapies and Regeneration discusses the types of wounds associated with trauma, illness, or surgery that can sometimes be extremely complex and difficult to heal.
Consequently, there is a prominent drive for scientists and clinicians to find methods to heal these types of wounds, with science increasingly turning towards biomaterials to address these challenges. Much research is now concerned with new therapies, regeneration methods, and biomaterials to assist in wound healing and healing response.
This book provides readers with a comprehensive review of the fundamentals and advances in the field of wound healing with regard to therapies and tissue regeneration. Chapters in Part One discuss fundamentals and strategies of wound healing, while Part Two reviews gene, stem cell, and drug delivery therapies for wound healing. Final chapters look at tissue regeneration strategies, making this an all-encompassing book on the topic of wound care and biomaterials.

Key Features
• Provides more systematic and comprehensive coverage of specific therapies and biomaterials for wound healing
• Highlights research that is concerned with new therapies, regeneration methods, and the use of biomaterials to assist in wound healing and healing response
• Presents an organized layout of the material that is carefully arranged with clear titles and comprehensive section headings
• Looks at tissue regeneration strategies, making this an all encompassing book on the topic of wound care

Author
Magnus S. Agren is Professor at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, and affiliated to Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Ågren has worked as senior scientist and manager in both academia and industry with wound healing for 35 years, and has published well over 100 scientific articles. He is also scientific advisor for a number of Scandinavian and international companies in the healthcare sector, and he serves on the editorial boards for a number of biomedical journals. Dr. Ågren is the current president for the European Tissue Repair Society.