The Immune Response to Implanted Materials and Devices

1. Host Response to Implanted Materials and Devices: An Overview
Michelle E. Scarritt, Ricardo Londono, Stephen F. Badylak

2. Implications of the Acute and Chronic Inflammatory Response and the Foreign Body Reaction to the Immune Response of Implanted Biomaterials
James M. Anderson, Sirui Jiang

3. Macrophages: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Good in the Inflammatory Response to Biomaterials
Marta Scatena, Karen V. Eaton, Melissa F. Jackson, Susan A. Lund, Cecilia M. Giachelli

4. Understanding Nanoparticle Immunotoxicity to Develop Safe Medical Devices
Marina A. Dobrovolskaia

5. Host Response to Synthetic Versus Natural Biomaterials
Kishor Sarkar, Yingfei Xue, Shilpa Sant

6. Convergence of Osteoimmunology and Immunomodulation for the Development and Assessment of Bone Biomaterials
Zetao Chen, Chengtie Wu, Yin Xiao

7. Modulation of Innate Immune Cells to Create Transplant Tolerance
Yue Zhao, Peixiang Lan, Xian C. Li

8. Inflammatory Cytokine Response to Titanium Surface Chemistry and Topography
Stephen M. Hamlet, Saso Ivanovski

9. The Biomechanical Environment and Impact on Tissue Fibrosis
Wayne Carver, Amanda M. Esch, Vennece Fowlkes, Edie C. Goldsmith

10. Advancing Islet Transplantation: From Donor to Engraftment
Omaima M. Sabek

11. Targeted Modulation of Macrophage Functionality by Nanotheranostics in Inflammatory Liver Disease and Cancer
Matthias Bartneck, Frank Tacke

12. T-Cell Mediated Immunomodulation and Transplant Optimization
Sandra Grass, Sara Khalid Al-Ageel, Martin Hildebrandt

Keywords: Materials Science, Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering, Immunology, Biomedical Engineering