1. Journal of artificial organs 2008: the year in review

   • Y. Sawa
   • E. Tatsumi
   • H. Watanabe

   Review 29 March 2009 Pages: 1 - 7

2. Artificial organs: recent progress in artificial hearing and vision

   • Tohru Ifukube

   Review 29 March 2009 Pages: 8 - 10

3. Neurological disorders and neural regeneration, with special reference to Parkinson’s disease and cerebral ischemia

   • Isao Date
   • Takao Yasuhara

   Review 29 March 2009 Pages: 11 - 16

4. Artificial neural interfaces for bionic cardiovascular treatments

   • Toru Kawada
   • Masaru Sugimachi

   Minireview 29 March 2009 Pages: 17 - 22

5. Biomechanics

   • Masahiro Nishida

   Minireview 29 March 2009 Pages: 23 - 26

6. Fifteen-year experience with Toyobo paracorporeal left ventricular assist system

   • Shunsuke Saito
   • Goro Matsumiya
   • Yoshiki Sawa

   Original Article 29 March 2009 Pages: 27 - 34

7. High-performance self-expanding stent graft: development and application to experimental aneurysms

   • Shogo Nishi
   • Yasuhide Nakayama
   • Yusuke Kinoshita

   Original Article 29 March 2009 Pages: 35 - 39

8. Local elasticity imaging of vascular tissues using a tactile mapping system

   • Tomonori Oie
   • Yoshinobu Murayama
   • Yasuhide Nakayama

   Original Article 29 March 2009 Pages: 40 - 46

9. Study on the physical properties of tissue-engineered blood vessels made by chemical cross-linking and polymer-tissue cross-linking

   • Kwangwoo Nam
   • Ayako Murakoshi
   • Akio Kishida

   Original Article 29 March 2009 Pages: 47 - 54

10. Pannus overgrowth after mitral valve replacement with a Carpentier-Edwards pericardial bioprosthesis

    • Takeshi Oda
    • Seiya Kato
    • Shigeaki Aoyagi

    Case Report 29 March 2009 Pages: 55 - 57

11. Long-term medical control of inflow cuff infection in a patient with a left ventricular assist system

    • Shunsuke Saito
    • Goro Matsumiya
    • Yoshiki Sawa

    Case Report 29 March 2009 Pages: 58 - 60

12. Development of novel covered stents using salmon collagen

    • Nobuhiro Nagai
    • Yasuhide Nakayama
    • Masanobu Munekata

    Brief Communication 29 March 2009 Pages: 61 - 66