Advanced Technologies in Cardiovascular Bioengineering [Hardcover]

This book presents a systematic overview of the technologies currently being explored and utilized in the fields of cardiovascular tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Considering the unprecedented rapid progress occurring on multiple technological fronts in cardiac tissue engineering, this important new volume fills a need for an up-to-date, comprehensive text on emerging advanced biological and engineering tools. The book is an important resource for anyone looking to understand the emerging topics that have the potential to substantially influence the future of the field. Coverage includes iPS stem cell technologies, nanotechnologies and nanomedicine, advanced biomanufacturing, 3D culture systems, 3D organoid systems, genetic approaches to cardiovascular tissue engineering, and organ on a chip. This book will be a valuable guide for research scientists, students, and clinical researchers in the fields of cardiovascular biology, medicine, and bioengineering, as well asindustry-based practitioners working in biomaterial science, nanomaterials and technology, and rapid prototyping and biomanufacturing (3D bioprinting). Part I. Cardiac development and morphogenesis.- Chapter 1. From simple cylinder to four-chambered organ: a brief overview of cardiac morphogenesis.- Chapter 2. Lineage Tracing Models to Study Cardiomyocyte Generation during Cardiac Development and Injury.- Chapter 3. Mechanisms that govern endothelial lineage development and vasculogenesis.- Part II. Cellular approaches to cardiac repair and regeneration .- Chapter 4. Remuscularization of Ventricular Infarcts Using the Existing Cardiac Cells.- Chapter 5. Allogeneic immunity following transplantation of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.- Chapter 6. Vascular regeneration with induced pluripotent stem cell-derived endothelial cells and reprogrammed endothelial cells.- Chapter 7. The guinea pig model in cardiac regeneration research; l#Ó