Adipose Technologies

Adipose Technologies provides in-depth knowledge of adipose tissue including how fat is formed and maintained, the methods used to isolate and characterize cells from fat and the regulatory, quality systems and procedures used to translate adipose technologies to treat human diseases. Rather than following a reductionist stem-cell dogma, this book follows a holistic, longitudinal treatment of adipose tissue related technology - with in-depth coverage of embryology and morphology of fat, enzymatic and non-enzymatic cell isolation methods, quality systems, regulatory frameworks, and clinical translation of these technologies. Adipose Technologies delivers an unusually deep historical, mechanistic, and methodological synthesis grounded in primary literature and decades of original contribution.

Adipose Technologies was written for basic and applied researchers in adipose science and cell biology, regenerative medicine and tissue engineering, as well as regulatory affairs, quality and legal professionals. Readers will gain an in depth knowledge of how fat is formed and historical and current efforts to regulate fat mass. Clinicians and applied scientists involved in translational or investigational therapies involving adipose derived cells will gain critical insights into past and current cell transplantation efforts. Methodologies and models are provided to achieve standardization of nomenclature, methods, instrumentation and ancillary materials used to study the adipose organ.