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CELL TRANSPLANTATION
TABLES OF CONTENTS
VOLUME 9, 2000
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 6, 2000
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Hibernated Human Fetal Striatal Tissue:
Successful Transplantation in a Rat Model of Huntington's Disease
Carrie B. Hurelbrink, Richard J. E. Armstrong, Roger A. Baker, Stephen
B. Dunnett, and Anne E. Rosser
The Effects of Taurine on hNT Neurons
Transplanted in Adult Rat Striatum
Selva Rivas-Arancibia, Alison E. Willing, Tanja Zigova, Alba I.
Rodriguez, David W. Cahill, and Paul R. Sanberg
A New Type of Biocompatible Bridging
Structure Supports Axon Regrowth After Implantation Into the Lesioned Optic
Tract
Giles W. Plant and Alan R. Harvey
Alginate-Encapsulated Producer Cells:
A Potential New Approach for the Treatment of Malignant Brain Tumors
Frits Thorsen, Tracy-Ann Read, Morten Lund-Johansen, Berit B&øoslash;lge
Tysnes, and Rolf Bjerkvig
Agarose Enhances the Viability of
Intraperitoneally Implanted Microencapsulated L929 Fibroblasts
Shahab Lahooti and Michael V. Sefton
Acutely Sodded Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene
Grafts Produce Only Prostacyclin: A Qualitative Difference From Saphenous
Veins
Sudhen B. Desai, David G. Cable, Michael R. Phillips, and Hartzell
V. Schaff
REVIEW
The Cre-loxP System: A Versatile
Tool for Targeting Genes in a Cell- and Stage-Specific Manner
Manas K. Ray, Shawn P. Fagan, and F. Charles Brunicardi
ICAM-1 Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotide
Improves Islet Allograft Survival and Function
Stephen M. Katz, Frank Bennett, Kim Stecker, James H. Clark, Tommy
Phan, Mou-er Wang, Barry D. Kahan, and Stanislaw M. Stepkowski
Development and Characterization
of Pituitary GH3 Cell Clones Stably Transfected With a Human Proinsulin
cDNA
Cesare Meoni, Frederico Bertuzzi, Antonio E. Pontiroli, Luca Falqui,
Lucia Monaco, Marco Soria, Cinzia Arcelloni, Rita Paroni, Chiara Foglieni,
Luca Polastri, Francesca Galbiati, Franco Folli, and Alberto M. Davalli
Insulin-Secreting Pituitary GH3
Cells: A Potential b-Cell Surrogate for Diabetes
Cell Therapy
Alberto M. Davalli, Francesca Galbiati, Federico Bertuzzi, Luca
Polastri, Antonio E. Pontiroli, Lucia Perego, Massimo Freschi, Guido Pozza,
Franco Folli, and Cesare Meoni
SPECIAL IPITA SECTION
Introduction: Prime Time for Pancreas and Islet Transplantation at
the Turn of the Millennium
Camillo Ricordi
Human Pancreatic Islets Transfected
to Produce an Inhibitor of TNF Are Protected Against Destruction by Human
Leukocytes
Trey Dobson, Dan Fraga, Corey Saba, Michael Bryer-Ash, A. Osama
Gaber, and Ivan C. Gerling
A Large-Animal Model to Evaluate
the Clinical Potential of Fetal Pig Pancreas Fragment Transplantation
Wayne J. Hawthorne, Adrian R. Cachia, Stacey N. Walters, Anita T.
Patel, Janelle E. Clarke, Philip J. O'Connell, Jeremy R. Chapman, and Richard
D. M. Allen
Induction of Allogeneic Islet Tolerance
in a Large-Animal Model
Peter J. Horton, Wayne J. Hawthorne, Stacey N. Walters, Anita T.
Patel, Philip J. O'Connell, Jeremy R. Chapman, and Richard D. M. Allen
Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney (SPK)
Transplantation From Controlled Non-Heart-Beating Donors (NHBDs)
Anthony M. D'Alessandro, Jon S. Odorico, Stuart J. Knechtle, Yolanda
T. Becker, Robert M. Hoffmann, Munci Kalayoglu, and Hans W. Sollinger
No Evidence of Infection With Porcine
Endogenous Retrovirus in Recipients of Encapsulated Porcine Islet Xenografts
R. B. Elliott, L. Escobar, O. Garkavenko, M. C. Croxson, B. A. Schroeder,
M. McGregor, G. Ferguson, N. Beckman, and S. Ferguson
Beneficial Effect of Pancreas and
Kidney Transplantation on Advanced Diabetic Retinopathy
R. Koznarová, F. Saudek, T. Sosna, M. Adamec, T. Jedináková,
P. Boucek, V. Bartoš, and V. Lánská
Successful Suppression of the Early
Rejection of Pig Islets in Monkeys
Jospehine K. R. A. Rijkelijkhuizen, Eelco Bouwman, Michel P. M.
van der Burg, Jan Ringers, Miriam A. Ossevoort, Eva M. Kuhn, Pat Frost,
and Margreet Jonker
Sustained Improvements in Cardiac
Geometry and Function Following Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation
A. Osama Gaber, Mona N. Wicks, Donna K. Hathaway, and Brad S. Burlew
Improved Solitary Pancreas Transplant
Graft Survival in the Modern Immunosuppressive Era
Jon S. Odorico, Yolanda T. Becker, Marilyn Groshek, Cathy Werwinski,
Bryan N. Becker, John D. Pirsch, and Hans W. Sollinger
Patient Survival and Cardiovascular
Events After Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation: Comparison With Kidney Transplantation
Alone in uremic IDDM Patients
Ennio La Rocca, Paolo Fiorina, Ettore Astorri, Claudio Rossetti,
Giovanni Lucignani, Ferruccio Fazio, Daniela Giudici, Renato Castoldi,
Guiseppe Bianchi, Valerio Di Carlo, Guido Pozza, and Antonio Secchi
Volume 9 Subject and Author Index
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 5, 2000
SPECIAL NEUROSCIENCE SECTION
Proceedings of the Meeting of the American
Society for Neural Transplantation and Repair (ASNTR), 1999
Mark H. Tuszynski
The Localization
and Functional Contribution of Striatal Aromatic L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase
to L-3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine Decarboxylation in Rodent Parkinsonian
Models
Ken Nakamura, Maqbool Ahmed, Eliav Barr, Jeffrey
M. Leiden, and Un Jung Kang
Grafting of
Nigral Tissue Hibernated With Tirilazad Mesylate and Glial Cell Line-Derived
Neurotrophic Factor
Åsa Petersén, Oskar Hansson,
Mia Emgård, and Patrik Brundin
Distribution
of AAV-TK Following Intracranial Convection-Enhanced Delivery Into Rats
Janet Cunningham, Yoshitsugu Oiwa, Dea Nagy,
Greg Podsakoff, Peter Colosi, and Krys S. Bankiewicz
Technique for
Bilateral Intracranial Implantation of Cells in Monkeys Using an Automated
Delivery System
Krys S. Bankiewicz, John Bringas, Phillip
Pivirotto, Ethan Kutzscher, Dea Nagy, and Marina E. Emborg
Behavioral
Evaluation of Hemiparkinsonian MPTP Monkeys Following Dopamine Pharmacological
Manipulation and Adrenal Co-Graft Transplantation
Leonard L. Howell, Larry D. Byrd, Ann M. McDonough,
P. Michael Iuvone, and Roy A. E. Bakay
Neurotrophic
Factors NGF and FGF-2 Alter Levels of Huntingtin (IT15) in Striatal Neuronal
Cell Cultures
Nadia S. K. Haque and Ole Isacson
Intraparenchymal
NGF Infusions Rescue Degenerating Cholinergic Neurons
Mark H. Tuszynski
Initial Characterization
of the Transplant of Immortalized Chromaffin Cells for the Attenuation
of Chronic Neuropathic Pain
M. J. Eaton, M. Martinez, S. Karmally, T.
Lopez, and J. Sagena
RESEARCH COMMENTARY
The X-gal Caution
in Neural Transplantation Studies
J. Sanchez-Ramos, S. Song, M. Dailey, F. Cardozo-Pelaez,
C. Hazzi, T. Stedeford, A. Willing, T. B. Freeman, S. Saporta, T. Zigova,
P. R. Sanberg, and E. Y. Snyder
SPECIAL CELL THERAPY '99 SECTION
Cell Therapy '99: Introduction
Hiroshi Amemiya
Treatment
of Carbon Tetrachloride and Phenobarbital-Induced Chronic Liver Failure
With Intrasplenic Hepatocyte Transplantation
Naoya Kobayashi, Masahiro Ito, Junta Nakamura,
Jin Cai, James M. Hammel, and Ira J. Fox
Strong, Long-Term
Transgene Expression in Rat Liver Using Chicken b-Actin
Promoter Associated With Cytomegalovirus Immediate-Early Enhancer (CAG
Promoter)
Motomichi Kosuga, Shin Enosawa, Xiao-Kang
Li, Seiichi Suzuki, Nobutake Matsuo, Masao Yamada, Jayanta Roy-Chowdhury,
Osamu Koiwai, and Torayuki Okuyama
Establishment
of Fluorescein Diacetate and Ethidium Bromide (FDAEB) Assay for Quality
Assessment of Isolated Islets
Masaaki Miyamoto, Yoshihiko Morimoto, Yuka
Nozawa, A. N. Balamurugan, Baoyou Xu, and Kazutomo Inoue
Phenotype
Correction in Murine Mucopolysaccharidosis Type VII by Transplantation
of Human Amniotic Epithelial Cells After Adenovirus-Mediated Gene Transfer
Motomichi Kosuga, Satori Takahashi, Kyoko
Sasaki, Shin Enosawa, Xiao-Kang Li, Sanae Okuyama, Masayuki Fujino, Seiichi
Suzuki, Masao Yamada, Nobutake Matsuo, Norio Sakuragawa, and Torayuki Okuyama
Grafting of
Mitomycin C-Treated Islet Xenograft Under the Kidney Capsule Produces a
Clear Bleb
Yoshihiro Sato, Tadeusz R. Grochowiecki, Yutaka
Takeda, Keizo Dono, Kazuya Ise, Yukio Kanazawa, Takuro Saito, Tsuyoshi
Abe, and Mitsukazu Gotoh
Clonogenic
Colony-Forming Ability of Flow cytometrically Isolated Hepatic Progenitor
Cells in the Murine Fetal Liver
Hideki Taniguchi, Reika Kondo, Atsushi Suzuki,
Yun-wen Zheng, Yasutsugu Takada, Kiyoshi Fukunaga, Ken-ichiro Seino, Kenji
Yuzawa, Masaaki Otsuka, Katashi Fukao, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi
Inducing Proliferation
of Human Amniotic Epithelial (HAE) Cells for Cell Therapy
Satoshi Terada, Keiko Matsuura, Shin Enosawa,
Masao Miki, Akinori Hoshika, Seiichi Suzuki, and Norio Sakuragawa
Grafting of
Encapsulated Dopamine-Secreting Cells in Parkinson's Disease: Long-Term
Primate Study
Isao Date, Tetsuro Shingo, Hideyuki Yoshida,
Kenjiro Fujiwara, Kazuki Kobayashi, and Takashi Ohmoto
Long-Term
Culture of Glutamine Synthetase-Transfected HepG2 Cells in Circulatory
Flow Bioreactor for Development for a Bioartificial Liver
Shin Enosawa, Tomoyuki Miyashita, Seiichi
Suzuki, Xiao-Kang Li, Miyuki Tsunoda, Hiroshi Amemiya, Mitsugu Yamanaka,
Shinya Hiramatsu, Naoko Tanimura, Takeshi Omasa, Kenichi Suga, and Toshiharu
Matsumura
Neurite Growth
Capability of Rat Fetal Neuronal Cells Against Matured CNS Myelin in Vitro
Koichi Hara, Koichi Uchida, Atsushi Fukunaga,
Yoshiaki Kuroshima, Motoyuki Yamada, and Takeshi Kawase
Role of the
Liver in Alloimmune Response Following Inoculation of Donor Spleen Cells
Li He, Keizo Dono, Mitsukazu Gotoh, Masaki
Okumura, Yutaka Takeda, Junzo Shimizu, Hiroaki Nagano, Shoji Nakamori,
Koji Umeshita, Masato Sakon, and Morito Monden
Modified Subcutaneous
Tissues With Neovascularization Is Useful as the Site for Pancreatic Islet
Transplantation
Yoshiyuki Kawakami, Hiroo Iwata, Yuanjung
Gu, Masaaki Miyamoto, Yoshinobu Murakami, Toru Yamasaki, Wanxing Cui, Yoshito
Ikaka, Masayuki Imamura, and Kazutomo Inoue
Treatment
of Surgically Induced Acute Liver Failure With Transplantation of Highly
Differentiated Immortalized Human Hepatocytes
Naoya Kobayashi, Masahiro Miyazaki, Kenichi
Fukaya, Yusuke Inoue, Masakiyo Sakaguchi, Hirofumi Noguchi, Toshihisa Matsumura,
Takamasa Watanabe, Noriaki Tanaka, and Masayoshi Namba
Efficient
Cre/loxP Site-Specific Recombination in a HepG2 Human Liver Cell Line
Naoya Kobayashi, Hirofumi Noguchi, Karen A.
Westerman, Toshihisa Matsumura, Takamasa Watanabe, Toshiyoshi Fujiwara,
Philippe Leboulch, and Noriaki Tanaka
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 4, 2000
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Comparison of Cancellous Bone-Derived
Cell Proliferation in Autologous Human and Fetal Bovine Serum
M.G. McAlinden and D. J. Wilson
Reduced NO Production Improves Early
Canine Islet Xenograft Function: A Role for Nitric Oxide in Islet Xenograft
Primary Nonfunction
Robert J. Ketchum, Shaoping Deng, Marcus Weber, Junning Jahr, and
Kenneth L. Brayman
The Efficiency of Muscle-Derived
Cell-Mediated Bone Formation
Patrick Bosch, Doug Musgrave, Steven Ghivizzani, Christian Latterman,
Charles S. Day, and Johnny Huard
Evaluation of an Intrathecal Immune
Response in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients Implanted With Encapsulated
Genetically Engineered Xenogeneic Cells
A. D. Zurn, H. Henry, M. Schleup, V. Aubert, L. Winkel, B. Eilers,
C. Bachmann, and P. Aebischer
SPECIAL MYOBLAST SECTION
Introduction: Myoblast Transfer in the New Millennium
Miranda D. Grounds
Why Do Cultured Transplanted Myoblasts
Die In Vivo? DNA Quantification Shows Enhanced Survival of Donor Male Myoblasts
in Host Mice Depleted of CD4+ and CD8+ Cells or NK1.1+
Cells
Stuart I. Hodgetts, Manfred W. Beilharz, Anthony A. Scalzo, and
Miranda D. Grounds
The Influence of Muscle Fiber Type
in Myoblast-Mediated Gene Transfer to Skeletal Muscles
Zhuqing Qu Petersen and Johnny Huard
A Factor Implicated in the Myogenic
Conversion of Nonmuscle Cells Derived From the Mouse Dermis
K. Goldring, G. E. Jones, and D. J. Watt
Thymic Myoid Cells as a Source of
Cells for Myoblast Transfer
C. N. Pagel, J. E. Morgan, J. G. Gross, and T. A. Partridge
Intramuscular Migration of Myoblasts
Transplanted After Muscle Pretreatment With Metalloproteinases
Y. Torrente, E. El Fahime, N. J. Caron, N. Bresolin, and J. P. Tremblay
Deflazacort Increases Laminin Expression
and Myogenic Repair, and Induces Early Persistent Functional Gain in mdx
Mouse Muscular Dystrophy
J. E. Anderson, M. Weber, and C. Vargas
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 3, 2000
REVIEW
Isolation of Adult Porcine Islets
of Langerhans
Christian Toso, Daniel Brandhorst, José Oberholzer, Frédéric
Triponez, Léo Bühler, and Philippe Morel
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS
In Vivo Persistence of Donor Cells
Following Adoptive Transfer of Allogeneic Dendritic Cells in HIV-Infected
Patients
Michael H. Shapero, Smriti K. Kundu, Edgar Engleman, Reiner Laus,
Wim C. A. van Schooten, and Thomas C. Merigan
In Vivo Expression of Human Growth
Hormone by Genetically Modified Murine Bone Marrow Stromal Cells and its
Effect on the Cells In Vitro
K. Suzuki, M. Oyama, L. Faulcon, P. D. Robbins, and C. Niyibizi
Analysis of Multivariables During
Porcine Liver Digestion to Improve Hepatocyte Yield and Viability for Use
in Bioartificial Liver Support Systems
Lisheng Wang, Junhong Sun, Chuanmin Wang, Kevin Woodman, Li Li,
Lujia Wu, Colin Harbour, Brendan Johnston, Liwei Shi, Margret Horvat, Nick
Koutalistras, Xianfeng Luo, Jenny Watson, and A. G. R. Sheil
Determination of the Prime Electrostatic
Endothelial Cell Transplantation Procedure for e-PTFE Vascular Prostheses
Gary L. Bowlin, Stanley E. Rittgers, Steven P. Schmidt, Thomas Alexander,
Daniel B. Sheffer, and Amy Milsted
Mechanical Barrier as a Protection
Against Rejection of Allogeneic Cartilage Formed in Joint Surface Defects
in Rats
Stanislaw Moskalewski, Anna Osiecka-Iwan, Anna Hyc, and Jaroslaw
Jozwiak
Comparison of Benefits on Myocardial
Performance of Cellular Cardiomyoplasty With Skeletal Myoblasts and Fibroblasts
Kelley A. Hutcheson, B. Zane Atkins, Matthew T. Hueman, M. Benjamin
Hopkins, Donald D. Glower, and Doris A. Taylor
Enhancement of Adult Muscle Regeneration
by Primary Myoblast Transplantation
John F. DeRosimo, Charles H. Washabaugh, Martin P. Ontell, Monica
J. Daood, Jon F. Watchko, Simon C. Watkins, Bill T. Ameredes, and Marcia
Ontell
Exposure to Tissue Culture Conditions
Can Adversely Affect Myoblast Behavior In Vivo in Whole Muscle Grafts:
Implications for Myoblast Transfer Therapy
Gayle M. Smythe and Miranda D. Grounds
The Morphology, Integration, and
Functional Efficacy of Striatal Grafts Differ Between Cell Suspensions
and Tissue Pieces
Colin Watts, Peter J. Brasted, and Stephen B. Dunnett
Islet Cell Transplantation: In Vivo
and In Vitro Functional Assessment of Nonhuman Primate Pancreatic Islets
Alessandra Ranuncoli, Nicola Cautero, Camillo Ricordi, Michele Masetti,
Ruth D Molano, Luca Inverardi, Rodolfo Alejandro, and Norma S Kenyon
Effects of Short-Term Hypoxia on
a Transformed Cell-Based Bioartificial Pancreatic Construct
K. K. Papas, R. C. Long, Jr., I. Constantinidis, and A. Sambanis
Pretransplant Induction of HSP-70
in Isolated Adult Pig Islets Decreases Early Islet Xenograft Survival
Daniel Brandhorst, Hans-Peter Hammes, Heide Brandhorst, Anke Zwolinski,
Fariborz Nahidi, Alexandra Alt, and Reinhard G. Bretzel
Protection From Cell Death in Cultured
Human Fetal Pancreatic Cells
Gillian M. Beattie, Gil Leibowitz, Ana D. Lopez, Fred Levine, and
Alberto Hayek
BRIEF COMMUNICATION
Angiogenesis Induced by the Implantation
of Self-Bone Marrow Cells: A New Material for Therapeutic Angiogenesis
Kimikazu Hamano, Tao-Sheng Li, Toshiro Kobayashi, Sei Kobayashi,
Masunori Matsuzaki, and Kensuke Esato
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2, 2000
NECTAR SPECIAL ISSUE
The Network of European CNS Transplantation and Restoration (NECTAR):
An Introduction on the Occasion of its Tenth Meeting
Gerard J. Boer (on Behalf of the Guest Editors)
Neural Stem Cells: From Cell Biology
to Cell Replacement
Richard J. E. Armstrong and Clive N. Svendsen
Conditionally Immortalized, Multipotential
and Multifunctional Neural Stem Cell Lines as an Approach to Clinical Transplantation
J. A. Gray, G. Grigoryan, D. Virley, S. Patel, J. D. Sinden, and
H. Hodges
The Use of Adenoviral Vectors and
Ex Vivo Transduced Neurotransplants: Towards Promotion of Neuroregeneration
Bas Blits, Paul A. Dijkhuizen, Wim T. J. M. C. Hermens, Lisette
(K.) E. Van Esseveldt, Gerard J. Boer, and Joost Verhaagen
Improving the Survival of Grafted
Dopaminergic Neurons: A Review Over Current Approaches
Patrik Brundin, Jenny Karlsson, Mia Emgård, Gabriele S. Kaminski
Schierle, Oskar Hansson, Åsa Petersén, and Roger F. Castilho
Complex Sensorimotor Behavioral Changes
After Terminal Striatal 6-OHDA Lesion and Transplantation of Dopaminergic
Embryonic Micrografts
Alexandra Rödter, Christian Winkler, Madjid Samii, and Guido
Nikkhah
Implication of the Subthalamic Nucleus
in the Pathophysiology and Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease
A. Benazzouz, B. Piallat, Z. G. Ni, A. Koudsie, P. Pollak, and A.
L. Benabid
Towards a Protocol for the Preparation
and Delivery of Striatal Tissue for Clinical Trials of Transplantation
in Huntington's Disease
Colin Watts and Stephen B. Dunnett
Neural Tissue Xenotransplantation:
What Is Needed Prior to Clinical Trials in Parkinson's Disease?
Roger A Barker, A. Lisa Kendall, Håkan Widner, and the Neural
Tissue Xenografting Project
The DaNeX Study of Embryonic Mesencephalic,
Dopaminergic Tissue Grafted to a Minipig Model of Parkinson's Disease:
Preliminary Findings of Effect of MPTP Poisoning on Striatal Dopaminergic
Markers
E. H. Danielsen, P. Cumming, F. Andersen, D. Bender, T. Brevig,
L. Falborg, A. Gee, N. M. Gillings, S. B. Hansen, F. Hermansen, J. Johansen,
T. E. Johansen, A. Dahl-Jørgensen, H. A. Jørgensen, M. Meyer,
O. Munk, E. B. Pedersen, P. H. Poulsen, A. B. Rodell, M. Sakoh, C. Z. Simonsen,
D. F. Smith, J. C. Sørensen, L. Østergård, J. Zimmer,
A. Gjedde, and A. Møller
Intrastriatal Ventral Mesencephalic
Xenografts of Porcine Tissue in Rats: Immune Responses and Functional Effects
Lena C. Larsson, Kimberly A. Czech, Patrik Brundin, and Håkan
Widner
Porcine Xenografts in Parkingon's
Disease and Huntington's Disease Patients: Preliminary Results
J. Stephen Fink, James M. Schumacher, Samuel L. Ellias, E. Prather
Palmer, Marie Saint-Hilaire, Kathleen Shannon, Richard Penn, Philip Starr,
Craig VanHorne, H. Stephen Kott, Peter K. Dempsey, Alan J. Fischman, Ronald
Raineri, Carolyn Manhart, Jonathan Dinsmore, and Ole Isacson
Towards Neurotransplantation in Multiple
System Atrophy: Clinical Rationale, Pathophysiological Basis, and Preliminary
Experimental Evidence
Gregor Karl Wenning, Francois Tison, Christoph Scherfler, Zoe Puschban,
Regina Waldner, Roberta Granata, Imad Ghorayeb, and Werner Poewe
Transplantation Options for Therapeutic
Central Nervous System Remyelination
William F. Blakemore and Robin J. M. Franklin
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1, 2000
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS
In Vitro Characterization of Porcine
Hepatocyte Function
Paul G. Gregory, Christopher K. Connolly, Mehmet Toner, and Susan
J. Sullivan
Optimal Insulin Treatment in Syngeneic
Islet Transplantation
Juan F. Merino, Victor Nacher, Mercè Raurell, Montserrat
Biarnés, Joan Soler, and Eduard Montanya
The Risks of Total Pancreatectomy and
Splenic Islet Autotransplantation
Steven A. White, Nicholas J. M. London, Joanne E. Davies, Cris Pollard,
Harold H. Contractor, David P. Hughes, Gavin S. M. Robertson, Patrick P.
Musto, and Ashley R. Dennison
Chitosan-Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone Hydrogels
as Candidate for Islet Immunoisolation: In Vitro Biocompatibility Evaluation
Makarand Risbud, Anandwardhan Hardikar, and Ramesh Bhonde
Storage and Microencapsulation of Islets
for Transplantation
Kirk Charles, Robert C. Harland, Denise Ching, and Emmanuel C. Opara
Chemotaxis Activation of Peritoneal
Murine Macrophages Induced by the Transplantation of Free and Encapsulated
Pancreatic Rat Islets
V. Karsten, S. Tritschler, K. Mandes, A. Belcourt, M. Pinget, and
L. Kessler
Increased Survival of Dopaminergic
Neurons in Striatal Grafts of Fetal Ventral Mesencephalic Cells Exposed
to Neurotrophin-3 or Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
Mónica Espejo, Blanca Cutillas, Ernest Arenas, and Santiago
Ambrosio
Survival, Neuronal Differentiation,
and Fiber Outgrowth of Propagated Human Neural Precursor Grafts in an Animal
Model of Huntington's Disease
Richard J. E. Armstrong, Colin Watts, Clive N. Svendsen, Stephen
B. Dunnett, and Anne E. Rosser
Volume and Differentiation of Striatal
Grafts in Rats: Relationship to the Number of Cells Implanted
Colin Watts, Iain R. McNamara, and Stephen B. Dunnett
Pretreatment With MK-801 or the Lazaroid
U-83836e Does Not Enhance Striatal Graft Survival
Ulrika Mundt-Petersen, Jenny Karlsson, Gabriele S. Kaminski Schierle,
and Patrik Brundin
Intrathecal Grafting of Unencapsulated
Adrenal Medullary Tissue Can Bring CD4 T Lymphocytes Into CSF: A Potentially
Deleterious Event for the Graft
J. Tkaczuk, J. C. Bes, H. Duplan, B. Sallerin, M. Tafani, J. P.
Charlet, M. Abbal, Y. Lazorthes, and E. Ohayon
Branched Hybrid Vessel: In Vitro Loaded
Hydrodynamic Forces Influence the Tissue Architecture
Teisei Kobashi and Takehisa Matsuda
Longitudinal Studies on the Microcirculation
Around the TheraCyteTM Immunoisolation Device, Using the Laser
Doppler Technique
E. Rafael, B. Gazelius, G. S. Wu, and A. Tibell
Improved Vascularization of Planar
Membrane Diffusion Devices Following Continuous Infusion of Vascular Endothelial
Growth Factor
N. Trivedi, G. M. Steil, C. K. Colton, S. Bonner-Weir, and G. C.
Weir
Effects of flt-3 Ligand in Combination
With TPO on the Expansion of Megakaryocytic Progenitors
Karen Li, Mo Yang, Audrey Carmen Lam, Fung Wan Yau, and Patrick
Man Pan Yuen