Biomedical Applications of Hydrogels Handbook

1] Introduction to Hydrogels Hossein Omidian and Kinam Park PART 1: STIMULI-SENSITIVE HYDROGELS 2] Stimuli Responsive Hydrogels and their Application to Functional Materials Ryo Yoshida and Teruo Okano 3] Feedback control systems using environmentally and enzymatically sensitive hydrogels Irma Y. Sanchez and Nicholas A. Peppas 4] Biomolecule-Responsive Hydrogels Takashi Miyata 5] Stimuli-Responsive PEGylated Nanogels for Smart Nanomedicine Motoi Oishi and Yukio Nagasaki 6] Stimuli-Sensitive Microhydrogels Haruma Kawaguchi PART 2: HYDROGELS FOR DRUG DELIVERY 7] In Situ Gelling Stimuli-Sensitive PEG Based Amphiphilic Copolymer Hydrogels Doo Sung Lee and Chaoliang He 8] Biodegradable Hydrogels For Controlled Drug Release Luis Garcia, Maria Rosa Aguilar and Julio San Roman 9] Thermo-Responsive Biodegradable Hydrogels from Stereocomplexed Poly(lactide)s Tomoko Fujiwara, Tetsuji Yamaoka, Yoshiharu Kimura 10] Hydrogel Based Drug Delivery System with Molecular Imaging Keun Sang Oh and Soon Hong Yuk PART 3: HYDROGELS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING 11] Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications Pieter J. Dijkstra 12] Composite Hydrogels for Scaffold Design, Tissue Engineering And Prostheses V.Guarino, A.Gloria, R. De Santis and L.Ambrosio 13] Hydrogels for Cartilage Tissue Engineering Pierre Weiss, Ahmed Fatimi, Jerome Guicheux, Claire Vinatier 14] Gelatin Based Hydrogels for Controlled Cell Assembly Xiaohong Wang, Yongnian Yan, Renji Zhang 15] Double Network Hydrogels as Tough, Durable Tissue Substitutes Takayuki Murosaki andJian Ping Gong 16] Hydrogels for Contact Lenses Jiri Michalek, Radka Hobzova, Martin Pradny, Miroslava Duskova PART 4: HYDROGELS WITH UNIQUE PROPERTIES 17] Electroconductive Hydrogels Ann Wilson,Gusphyl Justin and Anthony Guiseppi-Elie 18] Polysaccharide Engineered Nanogels Nobuyuki Morimoto and Kazunari Akiyoshi 19] Engineered High Swelling Hydrogels Hossein Omidian and Kinam Park 20] Superabsorbent Hydrogels Grigoriy Mu, Ibragim Suleimenov, Kinam Park, Hossein Omidian