This unique, single-source reference offers a detailed introduction to the fundamental phenomena that govern cell adhesion and describes bioengineering processes that employ cell adhesion, focusing on both biochemical and biomedical applications. Examines all industrially relevant issues of cell adhesion-from basic concepts, quantitative experiments, and mathematical models to applications in bioreactors and other process equipment

A complete mathematical guide to creating models for the distribution of properties of cell populations .

. "Population Balances in Biomedical Engineering: Segregation through the Distribution of Cell States" offers a framework for developing and solving simple models that are essential to determining the distribution of properties of cell populations and analyzing their underlying dynamic behavior..

. This rigorous resource takes a quantitative approach to overcoming obstacles that researchers face in building models that accurately approximate properties and classification of various cell populations. Coverage includes: . Population balancing techniques for filamentous organisms. Control points of steady-state and transient solutions. Methods for analysis of the underlying behavior of cellular systems.

. A Powerful Statistical Approach to Population Balance Modeling:
. * Population balance equations * Unstructured population balance equations * PBEs with control points: steady-state solutions * PBEs with control points: transient solutions * PBEs for filamentous organisms * Distributed breakage functions * Alternate formulations. . . . . . .