Book 33

Bioactive Materials in Medicine

Published 15 January 2011

Bioactive materials in medicine provides readers with information on the current status and developments in bioactive materials for medical applications. Initial chapters focus on the fundamentals of bioactive of materials with chapters on such topics as nanotechnology and tissue engineering. Further chapters discuss laboratory design techniques with a view to clinical applications. The final few chapters review current biomedical applications such as drug delivery, gene therapy, plastic surgery and the future direction of this increasingly important field.