Further Understanding Of The Human Machine: The Road To Bioengineering

by Max E Valentinuzzi (Editor)

Overview

What is bioengineering all about? How will it impact the future? Can it find the cure for diabetes and other chronic diseases? A long-awaited continuation of the 2004 book, Understanding the Human Machine: A Primer for Bioengineering, this volume intends to address these questions and more.Written together with 18 scientists active in the field, Max E. Valentinuzzi brings his decades of teaching bioengineering and physiology at the undergraduate and graduate levels to readers, giving a profound, and sometimes philosophical, insight into the realm of bioengineering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813147256
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/08/2017
Series:	Series On Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering , #7
Pages:	580
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Dedication vii

Acknowledgments ix

Contributors xi

Preface Max E. Valentinuzzi xxvii

Chapter 1 Introduction Max E. Valentinuzzi 1

Chapter 2 One Essential Source: Elcetrophysiology Max E. Valentinuzzi Alberto J. Kohen 15

Chapter 3 Another Source: Cardiac Mechanical Activity Max E. Valentinuzzi Alberto J. Kohen 63

Chapter 4 What About the Respiratory System Max E. Valentinuzzi Chi-Sang Poon 111

Chapter 5 The Renal System: Also a Source from General Physiology Max E. Valentinuzzi Alfredo Coviello 147

Chapter 6 Still with the Sources: Now, the Gastrointestinal System Max E. Valentinuzzi 191

Chapter 7 And Now the Endocrine System, Another Information Source Max E. Valentinuzzi 217

Chapter 8 The Nervous System: Source Par Excellence B. Silvano Zanutto Esteban Cynowiec 253

Chapter 9 Muscular and Skeletal Systems Mónica T. Miralles Ignacio Ghersi 305

Chapter 10 The Time Keeping System: A Key Organizational Element Verónica S. Valentinuzzi Gisele A. Oda 357

Chapter 11 Biosensors and Nanobiosensors Rossana E. Madrid Rosana Chehín Ting-Hsuan Chen Anthony Guiseppi-Elie 391

Chapter 12 The Biological Amplifier Enrique Spinelli Federico N. Guerrero 463

Chapter 13 Mathematical Models in Bioengineering Max E. Valentinuzzi Pedro D. Arini 501

Chapter 14 The Future of Bioengineenring: Possible New Areas Max E. Valentinuzzi Sibel Ertek B. Silvano Zanutto 523

Index 543