TISSUE AND CELL PROCESSING - AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE

A pioneer in performing pulmonary allographs in the 1960s introduces this text as a comprehensive guide to developments in clinical applications involving donated tissues or cells (including stem cells). Fehily (National Transplant Centre, Rome) and other specialists working with tissue and blood banks worldwide treat techniques to preserve and process donated tissues and cells of various kinds. In historical and global contexts, they discuss regulations; risk management; principles/phases from cell and tissue collection to decontamination; biocompatibility testing for transplantation; coding for therapeutic products; and training of tissue bank personnel. Chapters include case studies with lessons learned, preservation methodologies, discussions of recovery and processing related issues and future R&D efforts, illustrations, further reading, and a color plate gallery. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Deirdre Fehily PhD
Inspector and Technical Advisor, Tissues and Cells, National Transplant Centre, Rome, Italy

Scott A. Brubaker CTBS
Chief Policy Officer, American Association of Tissue Banks, McLean, Virginia, USA

John N. Kearney BSc, PhD, CBiol, MIBiol, SRCS
Head of Tissue Services/Lead Scientist/PI for Research, Liverpool Blood Centre, NHS Blood & Transplant, Liverpool, UK

Lloyd Wolfinbarger Jr. PhD
BioScience Consultants, llc, Norfolk, Virginia, USA