Current Issue: Volume 15, No. 4
CONTENTS
Original Contribution
Neural Transplantation in Huntington’s Disease: The NEST-UK Donor Tissue Microbiological Screening Program and Review of the Literature
M. Farrington, T. G. Wreghitt, A. M. L. Lever, S. B. Dunnett, A. E. Rosser, and R. A. Barker
Review
Chemokines and Their Receptors in Islet Allograft Rejection and as Targets for Tolerance Induction
Shaheed Merani, Wayne Truong, Wayne W. Hancock, Colin C. Anderson, and A. M. James Shapiro
Original Contributions
Porcine Islet Graft Function Is Affected by Pretreatment With a Caspase-3 Inhibitor
Daniel Brandhorst, Vidya Kumarasamy, Adel Maatoui, Alexandra Alt, Reinhard G. Bretzel, and Heide Brandhorst
Survival and Function of Transplanted Islet Cells on an In Vivo, Vascularized Tissue Engineering Platform in the Rat: A Pilot Study
David L. Brown, Peter J. Meagher, Kenneth R. Knight, Effie Keramidaris, Rosalind Romeo-Meeuw, Anthony J. Penington, and Wayne A. Morrison
Maintenance of Mouse, Rat, and Pig Pancreatic Islet Functions by Coculture With Human Islet-Derived Fibroblasts
Atsushi Miki, Michiki Narushima, Teru Okitsu, Yuichi Takeno, Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, Jorge David Rivas-Carrillo, Nalú Navarro-Alvarez, Yong Chen, Kimiaki Tanaka, Hirofumi Noguchi, Shinichi Matsumoto, Michinori Kohara, Jonathan R. T. Lakey, Eiji Kobayashi, Noriaki Tanaka, and Naoya Kobayashi
Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Hepatocytes Using Deleted Variant of HGF and Poly-amino-urethane-Coated Nonwoven Polytetrafluoroethylene Fabric
Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, Nalú Navarro-Alvarez, Jorge David Rivas-Carrillo, Yong Chen, Tomoki Yamatsuji, Noriaki Tanaka, and Naoya Kobayashi
The Development and Characterization of an HEK293-Derived Cell Line for Use in an Intratumoral Cytokine Delivery System
M. J. Hamilton, Q. X. Huang, C. L. Li, and K. A. O. Ellem
Short-Term Heart Retention and Distribution of Intramyocardial Delivered Mesenchymal Cells Within Necrotic or Intact Myocardium
Nguyen Tran, Yan Li, Fatiha Maskali, Laurent Antunes, Pablo Maureira, Marie-Helene Laurens, Pierre-Yves Marie, Gilles Karcher, Frederique Groubatch, Jean-François Stoltz, and Jean-Pierre Villemot
Brief Communication
Survival of Microencapsulated Islets at 400 Days Posttransplantation in the Omental Pouch of NOD Mice
Tsunehiro Kobayashi, Yukio Aomatsu, Hiroo Iwata, Tatsuya Kin, Hiromichi Kanehiro, Michiyoshi Hisanga, Saiho Ko, Mitsuo Nagao, George Harb, and Yoshiyuki Nakajima
Cell Transplantation publishes original, peer-reviewed research and review articles on the subject of cell transplantation and its application to human diseases. To ensure high-quality contributions from all areas of transplantation, separate section editors and editorial boards have been established. Articles deal with a wide range of topics including physiological, medical, preclinical, tissue engineering, and device-oriented aspects of transplantation of nervous system, endocrine, growth factor-secreting, bone marrow, epithelial, endothelial, and genetically engineered cells, among others. Basic clinical studies and immunological research papers are also featured. To provide complete coverage of this revolutionary field, Cell Transplantation will report on relevant technological advances, and ethical and regulatory considerations of cell transplants.