Cell-Derived Matrices Part B

<p>PrefaceDavid Caballero, Subhas C. Kundu and Rui L. Reis</p> <p>Section 1: Tissue decellularization and characterization methods1. Decellularization of porcine heart tissue to obtain extracellular matrix based hydrogelsRabeil Sakina, Aida Llucià-Valldeperas, Ana Henriques Lourenço, Abhishek Harichandan, Sandro Gelsomino, Paul Wieringa, Carlos Mota and Lorenzo Moroni2. Method to decellularize the human chorion membraneLaura P. Frazão, Joana Vieira-de-Castro, Cristina Nogueira-Silva and Nuno M. Neves3. Protocols for decellularization of human amniotic membraneSadjad Khosravimelal, Maryam Momeni, Mahdieh Gholipur, Subhas C. Kundu and Mazaher Gholipourmalekabadi4. Use of supercritical CO2 in soft tissue decellularizationBengisu Topuz, Gülçin Günal, Selcan Guler and Halil Murat Aydin5. Corneal extracellular matrix decellularizationMark Ahearne</p> <p>Section 2: Decellularized tissues for tissue engineering and disease modelling6. Implementation of a basement membrane invasion assay using mesenteric tissueRitobrata Ghose, Alistair J. Rice, Ernesto Cortes, Upamanyu Ghose, Dariusz Lachowski and Armando del Rio Hernandez7. Decellularized human bone as a 3D model to study skeletal progenitor cells in a natural environmentAna Rita Pereira, Maximilian Rudert and Marietta Herrmann8. Cell sheet tissue engineering for scaffold-free three-dimensional (3D) tissue reconstructionKyungsook Kim, Sophia Bou-Ghannam and Teruo Okano9. Decellularized matrices for tumor cell modelingVirginia Brancato, Maurizio Ventre, Rui L. Reis and Paolo Antonio Netti10. Tissue-derived decellularized extracellular matrices toward cartilage repair and regenerationPiyali Das, Yogendra Pratap Singh, Biman B. Mandal and Samit Kumar Nandi</p> <p>Section 3: Hybrid systems11.The effect of aligned electrospun fibers and macromolecular crowding in tenocyte cultureDimitrios Tsiapalis, Shubhasmin Rana, Meletios Doulgkeroglou, Stephen Kearns, Jack Kelly, Yves Bayon and Dimitrios I. Zeugolis</p>