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CELL TRANSPLANTATION
The Regenerative Medicine Journal
TABLES OF CONTENTS
VOLUME 15, 2006
VOLUME 15, NUMBER 10, 2006
SPECIAL ISSUE: JAPAN SOCIETY OF ORGAN PRESERVATION AND MEDICAL BIOLOGY (JSOPMB)
Introduction
Naoya Kobayashi, Guest Editor-in-Chief
Reviews
Cell Therapy
for Diabetes Mellitus
Naoya Kobayashi
Functional
Hepatocyte Culture and its Application to Cell Therapies
Kimiaki Tanaka, Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez,
Nalu Navarro-Alvarez, Jorge David Rivas-Carrillo, Hee-Sook Jun, and Naoya
Kobayashi
Original Contributions
Instant
Hepatic Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Using Activin A and
a Deleted Variant of HGF
Yong Chen, Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, Nalu
Navarro-Alvarez, Jorge David Rivas-Carrillo, Tomoki Yamatsuji, Yasuhiro
Shirakawa, Noriaki Tanaka, and Naoya Kobayashi
The Significant
Improvement of Survival Times and Pathological Parameters by Bioartificial
Liver With Recombinant HepG2 in Porcine Liver Failure Model
Shin Enosawa, Tomoyuki Miyashita, Tomohiro
Saito, Takeshi Omasa, and Toshiharu Matsumura
Preservation
of Rat Aortic Tissue Transplant With Green Tea Polyphenols
S.-H. Hyon, D.-H. Kim, W. Cui, K. Matsumura,
J.-Y. Kim, and S. Tsutsumi
Increased
Sensitivities of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells to Immunosuppressive
Drugs in Cirrhosis Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation
Abuduxukuer Mijiti, Naoto Matsuno, Tohru Iwahori,
Hironori Takeuchi, Takeshi Nagao, Kitaro Oka, and Toshihiko Hirano
Maintenance
of Neovascularization at the Implantation Site of an Artificial Device
by bFGF and Endothelial Cell Transplant
Atsushi Miki, Jorge D. Rivas-Carrillo, Nalu
Navarro-Alvarez, Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, Yong Chen, Kimiaki Tanaka, Michiki
Narushima, Yasuhiko Tabata, Teru Okitsu, Hirofumi Noguchi, Shinichi Matsumoto,
Noriaki Tanaka, and Naoya Kobayashi
PuraMatrixTM
Facilitates Bone Regeneration in Bone Defects of Calvaria in Mice
Haruo Misawa, Naoya Kobayashi, Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez,
Yong Chen, Aki Yoshida, Jorge David Rivas-Carrillo, Nalu Navarro-Alvarez,
Kimiaki Tanaka, Atsushi Miki, Jiro Takei, Tadayoshi Ueda, Masato Tanaka,
Hirosuke Endo, Noriaki Tanaka, and Toshifumi Ozaki
Improvement
of Hepatocyte Viability After Cryopreservation by Supplementation of Long-Chain
Oligosaccharide in the Freezing Medium in Rats and Humans
Yoshitaka Miyamoto, Satoshi Suzuki, Kou Nomura,
and Shin Enosawa
Self-Assembling
Peptide Nanofiber as a Novel Culture System for Isolated Porcine Hepatocytes
Nalu Navarro-Alvarez, Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez,
Jorge D. Rivas-Carrillo, Yong Chen, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Takeshi Yuasa, Haruo
Misawa, Jiro Takei, Noriaki Tanaka, and Naoya Kobayashi
Induction
of Pancreatic Stem/Progenitor Cells Into Insulin-Producing Cells by Adenoviral-Mediated
Gene Transfer Technology
Hirofumi Noguchi, Gang Xu, Shinichi Matsumoto,
Hideaki Kaneto, Naoya Kobayashi, Susan Bonner-Weir, and Shuji Hayashi
Amelioration
of Diabetes in Mice After Single-Donor Islet Transplantation Using the
Controlled Release of Gelatinized FGF-2
Jorge David Rivas-Carrillo, Nalu Navarro-Alvarez,
Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, Teru Okitsu, Yong Chen, Yasuhiko Tabata, Haruo
Misawa, Hirofumi Noguchi, Shinichi Matsumoto, Noriaki Tanaka, and Naoya
Kobayashi
Double-Compartment
Cell Culture Apparatus: Construction and Biochemical Evaluation for Bioartificial
Liver Support
Masahiro Takahashi, Masayuki Sakurai, Shin
Enosawa, Takeshi Omasa, Shuichi Tsuruoka, and Toshiharu Matsumura
Volume 15 Subject and Author Index
Original Contributions
Autologous
Bone Marrow Transplantation in Patients With Subacute and Chronic Spinal
Cord Injury
Eva Syková, Aleš Homola, Radim Mazanec,
Hynek Lachmann, Šimona Langkramer Konrádová, Petr Kobylka,
Radek Pádr, Jirí Neuwirth, Vladimír Komrska, Vladimír
Vávra, Jan Štulík, and Martin Bojar
Transplantation
of Bioreactor-Produced Neural Stem Cells Into the Rodent Brain
M. McLeod, M. Hong, A. Sen, D. Sadi, R. Ulalia,
L. A. Behie, and I. Mendez
Murine Brain
Progenitor Cells Have the Ability to Differentiate Into Functional Neurons
and Integrate Into the CNS
Singhua Ding, Conrad A. Messam, Peiying Li,
Michael E. Selzer, Marc A. Dichter, and Philip G. Haydon
Immunologic
Consequences of Multiple, High-Dose Administration of Allogeneic Mesenchymal
Stem Cells to Baboons
Kristin J. Beggs, Alex Lyubimov, Jade N. Borneman,
Amelia Bartholomew, Annemarie Moseley, Robert Dodds, Michael P. Archambault,
Alan K. Smith, and Kevin R. McIntosh
Human Bone
Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Seeded on Modified Collagen Improved Dermal
Regeneration In Vivo
Marta Markowicz, Eva Koellensperger, Sabine
Neuss, Sarah Koenigschulte, Christine Bindler, and Norbert Pallua
Establishment
of Cocultures of Osteoblasts, Schwann Cells, and Neurons Towards a Tissue-Engineered
Approach for Orofacial Reconstruction
Kirsten Haastert, Nicole Semmler, Maike Wesemann,
Martin Rücker, Nils-Claudius Gellrich, and Claudia Grothe
The Use of
the BD Oxygen Biosensor System to Assess Isolated Human Islets of Langerhans:
Oxygen Consumption as a Potential Measure of Islet Potency
Chris Fraker, Mark R. Timmins, Richard D.
Guarino, Perry D. Haaland, Hirohito Ichii, Damaris Molano, Antonello Pileggi,
Raffaella Poggioli, Sharon C. Presnell, Luca Inverardi, Mitra Zehtab, and
Camillo Ricordi
Adenovirus-Mediated
Expression of the Anticoagulant Hirudin in Human Islets: A Tool to Make
the Islets Biocompatible to Blood
Sanja Cabric, Graciela Elgue, Bo Nilsson,
Olle Korsgren, and Peter Schmidt
Survival
of an Islet Allograft Deficient in iNOS After Implantation Into Diabetic
NOD Mice
Andreas Börjesson, Annika K. Andersson,
and Stellan Sandler
The Effects
of Immunosuppressive Agents on the Function of Human Hepatocytes In Vitro
Trinidad Serrano, Ragai R. Mitry, Claire Terry,
Sharon C. Lehec, Anil Dhawan, and Robin D. Hughes
Microencapsulation
of Engineered Cells to Deliver Sustained High Circulating Levels of Interleukin-6
to Study Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression
Diarmuid M. Moran, Leonidas G. Koniaris, Elizabeth
M. Jablonski, Paul A. Cahill, Craig R. Halberstadt, and Iain H. McKillop
Enhanced
Functional Maturation of Fetal Porcine Hepatocytes in Three-Dimensional
Poly-L-lactic Acid Scaffolds: A Culture Condition Suitable for Engineered
Liver Tissues in Large-Scale Animal Studies
Hongyun Huang, Sanshiro Hanada, Nobuhiko Kojima,
and Yasuyuki Sakai
In Vitro
Functionality of Human Fetal Liver Cells and Clonal Derivatives Under Proliferative
Conditions
Tanja Deurholt, Lysbeth ten Bloemendaal, Aniska
A. Chhatta, Albert C. W. A. van Wijk, Kees Weijer, Jurgen Seppen, Ronald
P. J. Oude Elferink, Robert A. F. M. Chamuleau, and Ruurdtje Hoekstra
Development,
Characterization, and Use of a Fetal Skin Cell Bank for Tissue Engineering
in Wound Healing
Anthony S. De Buys Roessingh, Judith Hohlfeld,
Corinne Scaletta, Nathalie Hirt-Burri, Stefan Gerber, Patrick Hohlfeld,
Jan-Olaf Gebbers, and Lee Ann Applegate
Induction
of Tolerance Across Fully Mismatched Barriers by a Nonmyleoablative Treatment
Excluding Antibodies or Irradiation Use
Lionel Stephan, Christophe Pichavant, Manaf
Bouchentouf, Philippe Mills, Geoffrey Camirand, Saloua Tagmouti, David
Rothstein, and Jacques P. Tremblay
Review
Bone Marrow
Stromal Cells for Repair of the Spinal Cord: Towards Clinical Application
Rishi D. S. Nandoe, Andres Hurtado, Allan
D. O. Levi, Andre Grotenhuis, and Martin Oudega
Original Contributions
Transplanted
Human Neural Precursor Cells Migrate Widely But Show no Lesion-Specific
Tropism in the 6-Hydroxydopamine Rat Model of Parkinson's Disease
M. Jain, R. J. E. Armstrong, S. Elneil, and
R. A. Barker
In Vitro
Culture Duration Does Not Impact the Ability of Encapsulated Choroid Plexus
Transplants to Prevent Neurological Deficits in an Excitotoxin-Lesioned
Rat Model of Huntington's Disease
Dwaine F. Emerich and Christopher G. Thanos
Retinal Progentior
Cell Xenografts to the Pig Retina: Immunological Reactions
Karin Warfvinge, Jens F. Kiilgaard, Henry
Klassen, Parisa Zamiri, Erik Scherfig, Wayne Streilein, Jan U. Prause,
and Michael J. Young
Resolution of Neurotoxicity
and b-Cell Toxicity in an Islet Transplant Recipient
Following Substitution of Tacrolimus With MMF
Tatiana Froud, David A. Baidal, Gaston Ponte,
Jacqueline V. Ferreira, Camillo Ricordi, and Rodolfo Alejandro
Tetracycline-Regulated
Expression of VEGF-A in Beta Cells Induces Angiogenesis: Improvement of
Engraftment Following Transplantation
Zoltan Mathe, Philippe Dupraz, Chris Rinsch,
Bernard Thorens, Domenico Bosco, Marie Zbinden, Philippe Morel, Thierry
Berney, and Michael S. Pepper
Transplantation
of Murine Bone Marrow Stromal Cells Under the Kidney Capsule to Secrete
Coagulation Factor VIII
Taekeun Oh, Alexandra Peister, Kazuo Ohashi,
and Frank Park
Human Umbilical
Cord Blood Progenitor Cells Are Attracted to Infarcted Myocardium and Significantly
Reduce Myocardial Infarction Size
Robert J. Henning, Jose D. Burgos, Leo Ondrovic,
Paul Sanberg, John Balis, and Michael B. Morgan
Brief Communication
Use of Repeating
Dispensers to Increase the Efficiency of the Intramuscular Myogenic Cell
Injection Procedure
Daniel Skuk, Marlyne Goulet, and Jacques P.
Tremblay
Commentary
Cell Transplantation: Toward Cell Therapy
Agneta SanMartin and Cesar V. Borlongan
Editorial
Online Manuscript Processing for Cell Transplantation
Reviews
Myoblast
Therapy: From Bench to Bedside
Zhongmin Liu, Yanling Wu, and Bing-guan Chen
Original Contributions
Bridging
Nigrostriatal Pathway With Fibroblast Growth Factor-Primed Peripheral Nerves
and Fetal Ventral Mesencephalon Transplant Recuperates From Deficits in
Parkinsonian Rats
Yung-Hsiao Chiang, Shinn-Zong Lin, and Feng
C. Zhou
Inhibition
of p38 MAP Kinase in the Early Posttransplantation Phase Redistributes
Blood Vessels From the Surrounding Stroma Into the Transplanted Endocrine
Tissue
Åsa Johansson, Daniel Sandvik, and Per-Ola
Carlsson
Isolated
Pancreatic Islets in Three-Dimensional Matrices Are Responsive to Stimulators
and Inhibitors of Angiogenesis
André Kidszun, Darius Schneider, Doris
Erb, Gundula Hertl, Veronika Schmidt, Michael Eckhard, Klaus T. Preissner,
Georg Breier, Reinhard G. Bretzel, and Thomas Linn
Endothelial
Cell Preservation at 10°C Minimizes Catalytic Iron, Oxidative Stress,
and Cold-Induced Injury
Michael A. J. Zieger and Mahesh P. Gupta
Application
of a New Subretinal Injection Device in the Dog
András M. Komáromy, Signe E.
Varner, Eugene de Juan, Gregory M. Acland, and Gustavo D. Aguirre
Periosteal
Cell Pellet Culture System: A New Technique for Bone Engineering
Mari Akiyama, Hidehiko Nonomura, Syed H. Kamil,
and Ronald A. Ignotz
Directed
Three-Dimensional Growth of Microvascular Cells and Isolated Microvessel
Fragments
Carlos C. Chang and James B. Hoying
NECTAR Abstracts
16th Meeting of the Network of European CNS Transplantation
and Restoration (NECTAR)
Original Contributions
Fate of Embryonic
Stem Cells Transplanted Into the Deafened Mammalian Cochlea
B. Coleman, J. Hardman, A. Coco, S. Epp, M.
de Silva, J. Crook, and R. Shepherd
Porcine Fetal
Ventral Mesencephalic Cells Are Targets for Primed Xenoreactive Human T
Cells
Jan Koopmans, Aalzen de Haan, Elinda Bruin,
Ieneke van der Gun, Henk van Dijk, Jan Rozing, Lou de Leij, and Michiel
Staal
Ectopic Ossification
in the Scar Tissue of Rats With Myocardial Infarction
Karla Consort Ribeiro, Elisabete César
Mattos, João Pedro Saar Werneck-de-Castro, Vanessa Pinho Ribeiro,
Ricardo Henrique Costa-e-Sousa, Amarildo Miranda, Emerson Lopes Olivares,
Marcos Farina, José Geraldo Mill, Regina Coeli dos Santos Goldenberg,
Masako Oya Masuda, and Antônio Carlos Campos de Carvalho
Suppression
of Human T-Cell Responses to ?-Cells by Activation of B7-H4 Pathway
Dawei Ou, Xiaojie Wang, Daniel L. Metzger,
Ziliang Ao, Paolo Pozzilli, Roger F. L. James, Lieping Chen, and Garth
L. Warnock
Regeneration
of Osteonecrosis of Canine Scapho-lunate Using Bone Marrow Stromal Cells:
Possible Therapeutic Approach for Kienböck Disease
Ryosuke Ikeguchi, Ryosuke Kakinoki, Tomoki
Aoyama, Kotaro Roberts Shibata, Seiji Otsuka, Kennichi Fukiage, Koichi
Nishijo, Tatsuya Ishibe, Yasuko Shima, Bungo Otsuki, Takashi Azuma, Sadami
Tsutsumi, Tomitaka Nakayama, Takanobu Otsuka, Takashi Nakamura, and Junya
Toguchida
Assessment
of In Vitro Applicability of Reversibly Immortalized NKNT-3 Cells and Clonal
Derivatives
Ruurdtje Hoekstra, Tanja Deurholt, Lysbeth
ten Bloemendaal, Mireille Desille, Albert C. W. A. van Wijk, Bruno Clement,
Ronald P. J. Oude Elferink, Thomas M. van Gulik, and Robert A. F. M. Chamuleau
A Novel Bioreactor
Miccrocarrier Cell Culture System for High Yields of Proliferating Autologous
Human Keratinocytes
Jin Yu Liu, Jürg Hafner, Galya Dragieva,
and Günter Burg
High Yields of Autologous Living
Dermal Equivalents Using Porcine Gelatin Microbeads as Microcarriers for
Autologous Fibroblasts
Jin Yu Liu, Jürg Hafner, Galya Dragieva,
and Günter Burg
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, Nalé 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
Erratum
ISMETT INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
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 Domínguez-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
ASNTR SPECIAL ISSUE
Repairing the Nervous System: A Special Issue
Based on the 12th Annual American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair
(ASNTR) Meeting
Kathy Steece-Collier
Original Contributions
Timing of
Cord Blood Treatment After Experimental Stroke Determines Therapeutic Efficacy
Jennifer D. Newcomb, Craig T. Ajmo, Jr., Cyndy
D. Sanberg, Paul R. Sanberg, Keith R. Pennypacker, and Alison E. Willing
Genetically
Engineered Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Produce Met-Enkephalin at Augmented
Higher Levels In Vitro
Ikuko Sugaya, Tingyu Qu, Kiminobu Sugaya,
and George D. Pappas
Behavioral
and Histological Characterization of Intrahippocampal Grafts of Human Bone
Marrow-Derived Multipotent Progenitor Cells in Neonatal Rats With Hypoxic-Ischemic
Injury
Takao Yasuhara, Noriyuki Matsukawa, Guolong
Yu, Lin Xu, Robert W. Mays, Jim Kovach, Robert J. Deans, David C. Hess,
James E. Carroll, and Cesar V. Borlongan
Reviews
Progressive
Dopamine Neuron Loss in Parkinson's Disease: The Multiple Hit Hypothesis
Paul M. Carvey, Ashok Punati, and Mary B.
Newman
Neural Repair
Strategies for Parkinson's Disease: Insights From Primate Models
Katherine Soderstrom, Jennifer O'Malley, Kathy
Steece-Collier, and Jeffrey H. Kordower
CNS Gene
Therapy and a Nexus of Complexity: Systems and Biology at a Crossroads
Carolyn M. Tyler and Howard J. Federoff
Abstracts
Additional Abstracts for the 13th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair
Reviews
Pig-to-Nonhuman
Primate Islet Xenotransplantation: A Review of Current Problems
P. P. M. Rood, L. H. Buhler, R. Bottino, M.
Turcco, and D. K. C. Cooper
Coinhibitory
T-Cell Signaling in Islet Allograft Rejection and Tolerance
Wayne Truong, Wayne W. Hancock, Colin C. Anderson,
Shaheed Merani, and A. M. James Shapiro
Original Contributions
Viability
and Functionality of Bovine Chromaffin Cells Encapsulated Into Alginate-PLL
Microcapsules With a Liquefied Inner Core
T. Moustafa, S. Girod, F. Tortosa, R. Li,
J.C. Sol, F. Rodriguez, R. Bastide, Y. Lazorthes, and B. Sallerin
One-Step
Induction of Neurons From Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells in Serum-Free Media
Containing Vitamin B12 and Heparin
Hironori Yamazoe, Masato Kobori, Yoshinobu
Murakami, Keiichi Yano, Mitsuo Satoh, Kenji Mizuseki, Yoshiki Sasai, and
Hiroo Iwata
Engrafted
Neural Progenitor Cells Express a Tissue-Restricted Reporter Gene-Associated
With Differentiated Retinal Photoreceptor Cells
Thien N. Sam, Jing Xiao, Heidi Roehrich, Walter
C. Low, and Dale S. Gregerson
Subnormothermic
Preservation Maintains Viability and Function in a Porcine Hepatocyte Culture
Model Simulating Bioreactor Transport
M.-P. van de Kerkhove, R. Hoekstra, F. C.
van Nooijen, F. O. B. Spoelstra, B. M. Doorschodt, A. C. W. A. van Wijk,
P. P. C. Poyck, R. A. F. M. Chamuleau, and T. M. van Gulik
Quantitative
Assay for Quality Assurance of Human Cells for Clinical Transplantation
Steven T. Boyce, Benjamin A. Anderson, and
Horacio L. Rodriguez-Rilo
Comparison
of Cooling Systems During Islet Purification
Sue Swift, Tatsuya Kin, Mohammadreza Mirbolooki,
Richard Wilson, and Jonathan R. T. Lakey
Estimation
of Pancreas Weight From Donor Variables
Tatsuya Kin, Travis B. Murdoch, A. M. James
Shapiro, and Jonathan R. T. Lakey
Ameliorating
Injury During Preservation and Isolation of Human Islets Using the Two-Layer
Method With Perfluorocarbon and UW Solution
Payam Salehi, Mohammadreza Mirbolooki, Tatsuya
Kin, Toshiaki Tsujimura, A. M. James Shapiro, Thomas A. Churchill, and
Jonathan R. T. Lakey
Functional
MR Microimaging of Pancreatic b-Cell Activation
Barjor Gimi, Lara Leoni, Jose Oberholzer,
Mark Braun, Jose Avila, Yong Wang, Tejal Desai, Louis H. Philipson, Richard
L. Magin, and Brian B. Roman
Brief Communication
Size-Dependent
Revascularization of Transplanted Pancreatic Islets
Caroline Kampf, Göran Mattsson, and Per-Ola
Carlsson
Original Contributions
Genetic Modification
of Hepatocytes Towards Hepatocyte Transplantation and Liver Tissue Engineering
Hiroyuki Kuge, Kazuo Ohashi, Takashi Yokoyama,
Hiromichi Kanehiro, Michiyoshi Hisanaga, Fumikazu Koyama, Ginny L. Bumgardner,
Ken-Ichiro Kosai, and Yoshiyuki Nakajima
Hepatocyte
Transplantation in the Long Evans Cinnamon Rat Model of Wilson's Disease
Seon Mee Park, Kim Vo, Michel Lallier, Alexis-Simon
Cloutier, Pierre Brochu, Fernando Alvarez, and Steven R. Martin
Cryopreserved
Fetal Liver Cell Transplants Support the Chronic Failing Liver in Rats
With CCl4-Induced Cirrhosis
Olga V. Ochenashko, Nataliya A. Volkova, Svetlana
P. Mazur, Alexander Yu. Somov, Barry J. Fuller, and Alexander Yu. Petrenko
Analysis
of the Effects of Cryopreservation on Rat Hepatocytes Using SELDI-TOF Mass
Spectrometry
Claire Terry, Matthew Bailey, Ragai R. Mitry,
Sharon C. Lehec, Anil Dhawan, and Robin D. Hughes
Sertoli Cells
Induce Systemic Donor-Specific Tolerance in Xenogenic Transplantation Model
R. Shamekh, N. S. El-Badri, S. Saporta, C.
Pascual, P. R. Sanberg, and D. F. Cameron
Effects of
Simulated Microgravity on the Morphology and Function of Neonatal Porcine
Cell Clusters Cultured With and Without Sertoli Cells
G. Luca, M. Calvitti, C. Nastruzzi, G. Macchiarulo,
E. Becchetti, L. M. Neri, S. Capitani, G. Basta, P. Brunetti, R. Calafiore,
and D. F. Cameron
Engineered
Cell Therapy for Sustained Local Myocardial Delivery of Nonsecreted Proteins
Jing Bian, Matt Kiedrowski, Niladri Mal, Farhad
Forudi, and Marc S. Penn
Molecular
Imaging Reveals Skeletal Engraftment Sites of Transplanted Bone Marrow
Cells
Philipp Mayer-Kuckuk, Mikhail Doubrovin, Luc
Bidaut, Tulin Budak-Alpdogan, Shangde Cai, Vanessa Hubbard, Onder Alpdogan,
Marcel van den Brink, Joseph R. Bertino, Ronald G. Blasberg, Debabrata
Banerjee, and Juri Gelovani
Book Reviews
Bone Morphogenetic Protein and Collagen
(Glyn O. Phillips, editor)
Deana Hussamy and John T. Sinnott
Epidermal Cells: Methods and Protocols (Kursad
Turksen, editor)
Deepak Agrawal
Stem Cells in Endocrinology (Linda B.
Lester, editor)
Niketa A. Patel