67-68
Editorial Introduction
Editorial
Glyn O. Phillips
69-76
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Programme in Radiation and Tissue Banking: Past, Present and Future
Glyn O. Phillips and Jorge M. Pedraza
77-84
IAEA/NUS Distance Learning Diploma Training Course for Tissue Bank Operators – Past, Present and Future
A. Nather, G.O. Philips and J. Morales
85-93
A comparative evaluation of culture conditions for short-term maintenance (<24 hr) of human islets isolated using the Edmonton protocol
Shinichi Matsumoto, Shilpa Goel, Sabrina Qualley, D. Michael Strong and Jo Anna Reems
95-100
Properties of Air Dried Radiation Processed Amniotic Membranes under Different Storage Conditions
Rita Singh, Pallavi Gupta, Pawan Kumar, Ashok Kumar and M.P. Chacharkar
101-107
Clinical Evaluation of Irradiated, Freeze-Dried Dura Mater Allograft as a Collagen-Based Barrier in Periodontal Osseous Defects
A. Lobo Gajiwala and A.V. Shah
109-118
Reconstructing Tumour Defects: Lyophilised, Irradiated Bone Allografts
A. Lobo Gajiwala, M. Agarwal, A. Puri, C. D'Lima and A. Duggal
119-123
The use of Irradiated Allografts in Posterior Spinal Fusion for Healed Tubercular Kyphosis in Children
A. Lobo Gajiwala, V. Trivedi and S. Deshpande
125-132
The Use of Irradiated Allografts in Reconstruction of Tumor Defects – the Tata Memorial Hospital Experience
A. Lobo Gajiwala, M. Agarwal, A. Puri, C. D'Lima and A. Duggal
133-139
Evaluation of Freeze-Dried Dura Mater Allograft as a Collagen Based Barrier (an experimental animal study)
A.V. Shah and B.S. Jathal
141-146
Use of Banked Tissue in Plastic Surgery
Kalpesh Gajiwala and Astrid Lobo Gajiwala
147-150
Use of Irradiated Amnion as a Biological Dressing in the Treatment of Radiation Induced Ulcers
A. Lobo Gajiwala and V. Sharma
151-156
Tissue Banking in Australia
Lynette Ireland and Helen McKelvie
157-161
The Colombian Experience in Tissue Banking: The Bone and Tissue Bank of the Cosmos and Damian Foundation, Bogota
Jose Navas and Camilo Soto
163-168
The Tissue Bank at the National Nuclear Research Institute in Mexico
María Esther Martínez-Pardo and Ma. Lourdes Reyes-Frías
169-172
Initiation of Bone and Amnion Banking in Turkey
A. Yilmaz Erkol, Hilal Haznedaroglu, Türkan Özkara and Halim Taskin
173-178
Progress of National Multi-tissue Bank in Uruguay in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Tissue Banking Programme
Inés Alvarez, Ma del Carmen Saldías, Olga Wodowoz, Héctor Pérez Campos and Daniel Machin, et al.
179-183
Slovakia: Five Years Experience of Multitissue Bank with the Production of Allografts and Cultured Living Cells
J. Rosocha, H. Hrbková and D. Harvanová
185-191
Indonesia: Statistical Sampling Technique in Validation of Radiation Sterilisation Dose of Biological Tissue
N. Hilmy, A. Basril and A. Febrida
193-201
Setting up a Tissue Bank in India: The Tata Memorial Hospital Experience
A.L. Gajiwala
203-211
Tissue Banking in India: Gamma-Irradiated Allografts
A. Lobo Gajiwala
213-216
Report from the First Annual Meeting of the Latin America Tissue Banks on Legislation and Policies adopted by Tissue Banks in the Region
María Elena Menna
217-220
Status of Bone Allografting in Japan – Nation-Wide Survey of Bone Grafting Performed from 1995 through 1999
Koichiro Komiya, Shuuji Nasuno, Katsufumi Uchiyama, Naonobu Takahira and Nao Kobayashi, et al.
221-222
News in Brief
223-224
News from the Internet
225-227
Calendar of events