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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 The New Frontiers in Bone Tissue Engineering: Functionalized Biomimetic Surfaces beyond Morphogens and Stem Cells |
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1.1 Tissue Induction and Morphogenesis |
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1.2 The Concavity: The Shape of Life |
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Chapter 2 The Induction of Bone Formation: When and Why Bone Forms and Sometimes Repairs and Regenerates: The Enigmatic Myth of Bone Tissue Engineering and the Dream of Regenerative Medicine |
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2.1 The Induction of Bone Formation |
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2.2 Molecular Redundancy and the Induction of Bone Formation by the Human Transforming Growth Factor-β3 |
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2.3 Translational Research on the Recombinant Transforming Growth Factor-β3 in Human Patients |
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2.4 Molecular Microenvironments Super Activated by Morphogenetic Signals |
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2.5 Diffusible Signals, Microenvironments and the Establishment of Morphogenetic Gradients |
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Chapter 3 The Induction of Bone Formation and the Osteogenic Proteins of the Transforming Growth Factor-β Supergene Family: Pleiotropism and Redundancy |
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3.2 Morphogens and the Induction of Bone Formation |
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3.3 The Osteogenic Proteins of the Transforming Growth Factor-β Supergene Family |
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Chapter 4 Coral-Derived Hydroxyapatite-Based Macroporous Bioreactors Initiate the Spontaneous Induction of Bone Formation in Heterotopic Extraskeletal Sites: Morphological Time Studies |
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4.1 Self-Inducing Osteoinductive Biomimetic Matrices |
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4.2 Tissue Induction and Morphogenesis by Coral-Derived Hydroxyapatite Constructs on Day 15 after Heterotopic Rectus Abdominis Implantation |
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4.3 Tissue Induction and Morphogenesis by Coral-Derived Hydroxyapatite Constructs on Days 60 and 90 after Heterotopic Rectus Abdominis Implantation |
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4.4 Angiogenesis, Capillary Sprouting and the Induction of Bone Formation |
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Chapter 5 Concavities of Crystalline Sintered Hydroxyapatite-Based Macroporous Bioreactors Initiate the Spontaneous Induction of Bone Formation |
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5.2 Self-Inductive Biomaterials |
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5.3 Surface Geometry Regulates Bone Differentiation in Heterotopic Sites |
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5.4 The Geometric Design of the Concavity Regulates the Induction of Bone Formation |
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5.5 The Concavity: The Shape of Life - Perspective and Limitations |
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5.6 Chondrogenesis in Biomimetic Calcium Phosphate-Based Bioreactors |
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Chapter 6 Molecular Pathways Regulating the Geometric Induction of Bone Formation: Synthetizing and Embedding Osteogenic Proteins into Nanotopographic Geometries |
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6.2 Tissue Patterning of Geometric Constructs: Morphological and Molecular Observations |
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6.3 Mechanistic Insights into the Induction of Bone Formation by 7% HA/CC Macroporous Bioreactors |
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Chapter 7 The Spontaneous Induction of Bone Formation by Intrinsically Osteoinductive Bioreactors for Human Patients: Osteoinductive Hydroxyapatite-Coated Titanium Implants |
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7.1 Geometry and the Rationale for Fabricating Self-Inducing Osteoinductive Hydroxyapatite-Coated Titanium Implants |
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7.2 Solid Titanium Bioreactors with the Concavity Motif |
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7.3 Does Pure Titanium Metal per se Initiate the Spontaneous Induction of Bone Formation? |
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7.4 The Geometric Induction of Bone Formation |
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7.5 Inducive Morphogenetic Gradients of the Concavity |
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Index |
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