Muscle Tissue Engineering Living Actuators

Take away muscle, and a human has no form of expression. Strategically placed muscles can enable eyes to rotate, arms to reach, hands to manipulate objects, speech to be articulated, and faces to be expressed. Hundreds of muscles, representing about 40% of the mass of a healthy person, are distributed throughout the body, communicating through neurons and being energized by blood vessels. The more we learn about form and function of this contractile tissue, the more we recognize the remarkable degree of advanced engineering science and design that goes into it.This book serves as an introductory guide to the bioengineering science of muscle tissue. Author Jack M. Winters covers such topics as design layout strategies, structural and functional design considerations, electrical conductive properties, and chemical sensitivity. Muscle Tissue is ideally suited for students and researchers of biomedical engineering at any level.Winters, Jack is the author of 'Muscle Tissue Engineering Living Actuators', published 2007 under ISBN 9781598291469 and ISBN 1598291467.