Preface
I Introduction
1 Introduction
II The Structure and Biochemistry of Collagen
2 The structure of collagen
3 Biosynthesis and biodegradation of collagen
4 Collagen Assemblies
5 Tissue Arrangement
6 Collagen stability
7 Interactions
III The Production of Collagen-based Biomaterials
8 Production of tissue derived collagens
9 Production of recombinant collagens
10 Evaluation of the Quality of Collagen Preparations
11 Fabrication of biomedical products
12 Chemical Modifications
IV Applications of collagen in medical products
13 Applications for intact tissue collagen
14 Applications for purified collagen
15 Applications of biosynthetic materials
16 Collagen applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
17 Coating of biomedical materials with collagen
18 Composites of collagen with other materials
V Conclusions
19 Concluding remarks
John A M Ramshaw is a chemist who studied at Van Mildert College, Durham University, UK, where he was awarded BSc, PhD and DSc degrees. He recently retired as a chief research scientist at CSIRO and is now at The University of Melbourne. He has extensive experience of collagen and biomedical materials, through research leading to papers and patents, consulting and innovation.
Veronica Glattauer graduated from La Trobe University in
Melbourne, Australia, with a BSc in chemistry and biochemistry. She
was later awarded a PGDip in computer science from Monash
University. She has extensive scientific knowledge in the area of
biomaterial science and engineering, extracellular matrix biology
(principally collagen), protein chemistry, and cell biology.
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