ASTM STP 1452 Tissue Engineered Medical Products (TEMPs)
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This publication, Tissue Engineered Medical Products (TEMPs), contains papers presented at the symposium of the same name held in November of 2002. The symposium was sponsored by the ASTM International Committee F4 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices and its Division IV on Tissue Engineered Medical Products, in cooperation with Biomat.net, The Society for Biomaterials and The Tissue Engineering Society.
Papers included in this STP are organized in the following general categories:
- What technology do we have and how is it doing?
- What standards exist and what standards are needed?
- What standards are used globally by regulatory bodies for approvals?
Examples of specific topics addressed in this STP include:
- bone cell culture methods
- human papillomaviruses (HPVs)
- artificial skin
- biological tissue constructs
- recombinant Bone Morphogenetic Protein
- characterization of Natural Materials
- adventitious agents
- biological safety
- neural guidance conduit
- storage and Transport Issues
- bio-preservation
- cryo-preservation
- risk management strategies
- gap-junctional intercellular communication (GJIC)
- standards for tissue engineering
- mechanical evaluation of Allograft bone
- glycosaminoglycan
- chondrocyte
- oxidative DNA damage
- de-mineralized bone matrix