Regenerative Medicine I. Theories, Models and Methods
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Author(s): I. V. Yannas (Ed.)
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:  3540228713
Format: hardback
  193pp
Price: £107.50, $169.00, €139.95 (+VAT)
Review Date: April 19, 2005
Review: This volume looks at ways of growing back adult organs after the function of the original organ has been lost, following accidental trauma or elective surgery, or even after an organ has become dysfunctional due to chronic insult. This is a new field and these are early efforts and the regenerated organs are often quite imperfect. However, the clinical benefit, in some cases, seems to be highly significant and the methodology of induced regeneration has already yielded spectacular results over the entire anatomy. There are chapters on: induced regeneration of heart valves; peripheral nerves; skin; cartilage; urological organs; the conjunctiva; bone; liver and the spinal cord. Compensatory hypertrophy of the liver is described, an unusual and instructive healing process in the adult, as well as other spontaneous regeneration phenomena such as those observed in the mammalian foetus or limb regeneration observed in amphibians.