Volume 15, Supplement 1
ISMETT INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
CONTENTS
Introduction
Bruno Gridelli
End-Stage Organ Failure: Will Regenerative Medicine Keep Its Promise?
Fabio Triolo and Bruno Gridelli
Tissue Engineering and the Challenges Within
Sara L. Wargo, Thangappan Ravi Kumar, and Alan J. Russell
Development of Composite Porous Scaffolds Based on Collagen and Biodegradable Poly(ester urethane)urea
Jianjun Guan, John J. Stankus, and William R. Wagner
The Use of Extracellular Matrix as an Inductive Scaffold for the Partial Replacement of Functional Myocardium
Stephen F. Badylak, Paul V. Kochupura, Ira S. Cohen, Sergey V. Doronin, Adam E. Saltman, Thomas W. Gilbert, Damon J. Kelly, Ronald A. Ignotz, and Glenn R. Gaudette
Growth Factor Enhancement of Cardiac Regeneration
Nadia Rosenthal, Maria Paola Santini, and Antonio Musarò
Stem Cell Therapy for Ischemic Heart Disease: Beginning or End of the Road?
Christof Stamm, Andreas Liebold, Gustav Steinhoff, and Dirk Strunk
Wound Healing in the Biliary Tree of Liver Allografts
A. J. Demetris, Paulo Fontes, John G. Lunz, III, Susan Specht, Noriko Murase, and Amadeo Marcos
Flexible Lineage Specifications of Adult Hepatic Cells, Associated Molecular Pathways, and Their Relationship to Liver Cancer
George K. Michalopoulos
Towards the Development of a Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device
Harvey S. Borovetz, Stephen Badylak, J. Robert Boston, Carl Johnson, Robert Kormos, Marina V. Kameneva, Marwan Simaan, Trevor A. Snyder, Hiro Tsukui, William R. Wagner, Joshua Woolley, James Antaki, Chenguang Diao, Stijn Vandenberghe, Bradley Keller, Victor Morell, Peter Wearden, Steven Webber, Jeff Gardiner, Chung M. Li, Dave Paden, Bradley Paden, Shaun Snyder, Jingchun Wu, Gill Bearnson, John A. Hawkins, Gordon Jacobs, John Kirk, Pratap Khanwilkar, Peter C. Kouretas, James Long, and R. E. Shaddy
Is Facilitating Pancreatic Beta Cell Regeneration a Valid Option for Clinical Therapy?
Massimo Trucco
Protein Transduction: A Novel Approach to Induce In Vitro Pancreatic Differentiation
Juan DomÃnguez-Bendala, Ricardo L. Pastori, Camillo Ricordi, and Luca Inverardi
Bioreactors for Extracorporeal Liver Support
Jörg C. Gerlach
Hepatocyte Transplantation: Clinical Experience and Potential for Future Use
Stephen C. Strom, Paolo Bruzzone, Hongbo Cai, Ewa Ellis, Thomas Lehmann, Keitaro Mitamura, and Toshio Miki
The Regenerative Potential of Stem Cells in Acute Renal Failure
Marina Morigi, Ariela Benigni, Giuseppe Remuzzi, and Barbara Imberti
Vascular Tissue Engineering
Chiara Arrigoni, Davide Camozzi, and Andrea Remuzzi
Abstracts
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.