This book is a general introduction to the use of the silkworm and its products for the textile industry and in the human body for the purposes of aiding healing and correcting deformities. In addition, this book provides a familiarity with the uses of silk materials in textile and biological applications and also the rational basis for these applications. It covers subjects such as silkworm silk fibre composites, silk materials in medicine and cellular immunological responses to silk materials.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Nova Science Publishers Inc
City:
New York
Pages:
325
More info:
height 280 mm
width 215 mm
weight 824 gr
thickness 25 mm
Summary
Silk
Preface; Silk Use by Benthic Macroinvertebrates; Muga Silk: Properties, Production & Uses; Conservation & Diversification of Spider Silk: An Evolutionary Perspective; Evolution of Mulberry & Non-Mulberry Silk Fibers for Textile Applications; Flavonoids & Carotenoids in Silkworm Cocoons; A Novel Concept on Bioengineering-Silkworm Silk Fiber; Evaluating the Degradation of Silk Fabrics & Silk-Based Biomaterials; Ecophysiological Influences on Spider Silk Properties & the Potential for Producing Adaptable, Degradation Resistant Biomaterials; Toward Eco-Friendly Composite Materials Based on Silk Fibroin; Cellular Immunological Responses to Silk Materials; Silk Fibroin in Medicine; Silk Materials for Drug Delivery Devices; Application of Silk Sericin for the Controlled Release & Target-Specific Delivery of Biological Substances; Silk Proteins for Wound Healing Materials; Use of Silk in Tendon/Ligament Tissue Engineering; Index.
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