This is the first concise book that includes different aspects of naturally-derived components for wound healing. After a short introduction into modern solutions in wound-care and modern techniques in wound-dressing development, the authors, leaders in the field, explore natural-based components (drugs, extracts, materials etc.);

The bookFunction-oriented bioengineered skin equivalents -  continuous development towards complete skin replicationaims to provide potential readers with a comprehensive summary of the available information on variousin vitroskin models, from historical background to different modeling approaches and their applications. Particular emphasis is placed on presenting the current technological components available for the development of engineered skin equivalents by summarizing advances in cell cultivation, materials science, and bioengineering. Using examples of the current-state-of-art, we...