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- Provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the state-of-the-art in the field of cell encapsulation
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 670)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Laboratory of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
José Luis Pedraz, Gorka Orive
About the editors
José Luis Pedraz has a PhD in Pharmacy from the University of Salamanca, Spain. He is professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology at the Faculty of Pharmacy in the Basque Country University. He is cofounder and director of the Pharmaceutical Development Unit of the Basque Country. His interest is focused in the development and evaluation of pharmaceutical dosage forms (microcapsules, micro- and nanoparticles) for the administration of gene, proteins, peptides, vaccines and cells. He has published over 200 scientific articles and edited several book chapters focused on cell microencapsulation.
Gorka Orive has a PhD in Pharmacy and is currently assistant professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria, Spain. He is director of research publications and scientific coordinator of the field of oral implantology for Biotechnology Institute (BTI, Vitoria, Spain). His interests include polymer-based cell therapy for long-term and controlled protein and growth factor delivery to different tissues including brain. He is also interested in the potential use of autologous platelets growth factors and fibrin scaffold for regenerative medicine. He has published more than 100 articles in national and international journals including Nature Medicine, Nature Reviews Neurosciences, Molecular Therapy, Biomaterials, Trends in Pharmacological Sciences among others and several book chapters focused on cell microencapsulation for therapeutic purposes and the use of plasma rich in growth factors in medicine.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Therapeutic Applications of Cell Microencapsulation
Editors: José Luis Pedraz, Gorka Orive
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5786-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5785-6Published: 12 January 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2549-6Published: 25 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-5786-3Published: 31 December 2010
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 125
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedicine general, Medical Microbiology