Essentials of Tissue Banking

1. Live Donors of Tissue
Ruth Warwick

2. Deceased Donors of Tissue
Aurora Navarro

3. Banking of Cord Blood
Eliane Gluckman

4. Banking of Corneas
W. John Armitage

5. Banking of Heart Valves
Robert Parker

6. Banking of Skin
Ellen Heck

7. Storage, Processing and Preservation
John N. Kearney

8. Cryopreservation
David Pegg

9. Sterilisation by Irradiation
Artur Kaminski, Izabela Uhrynowska-Tyszkiewicz, Waclaw Stachowicz

10. Testing the Donor
Alan Kitchen, John Barbara

11. Testing the Tissue and the Environment
Ted Eastlund, Martell K. Winters

12. Establishing a Quality System
Scott A. Brubaker

13. IT System
Linda Lodge

14. Regulatory and Ethical Issues
David Pegg

Keywords: Biomedicine, Laboratory Medicine, Human Physiology, Biomaterials