FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOMATERIALS AND BIOCOMPATIBILITY - Advanced Biomaterials: Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications - page 2

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FUNDAMENTALS OF
BIOMATERIALS AND
BIOCOMPATIBILITY

Bikramjit Basu and Shekhar Nath
Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

Contents

1.1 Overview 4

1.2 Introduction 4

1.3 Some Useful Defi nitions and Their Implications 5

1.3.1 Biomaterial 5

1.3.2 Biocompatibility 7

1.3.3 Host Response 7

1.4 Cell - Material Interactions 8

1.5 Experimental Evaluation of Biocompatibility 12

1.5.1 In Vitro Tests 12

1.5.2 In Vivo Tests 14

1.6 Steps for Characterizations of Biomaterials 15

1.7 Broad Overview of Fundamentals Section 16

References 17