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Essentials of Tissue Banking

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. George Galea

    1. Service, Scottish National Blood Transfusion, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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  • A collection of up to date chapters covering all scientific essential aspects of tissue banking (currently such a book does not exist)
  • Very timely book at a time of significant change in tissue banking
  • New regulations and legislation have made a real difference to tissue banking methodologies- essential to have scientific backing for many long established practices, particularly since risk assessments are now a requirement of any process involved in tissue establishments’ practices

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Management of

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Live Donors of Tissue

      • Ruth Warwick
      Pages 3-21

    3. Deceased Donors of Tissue

      • Aurora Navarro
      Pages 23-40

    4. Banking of Cord Blood

      • Eliane Gluckman
      Pages 41-58

    5. Banking of Corneas

      • W. John Armitage
      Pages 59-67

    6. Banking of Heart Valves

      • Robert Parker
      Pages 69-80

    7. Banking of Skin

      • Ellen Heck
      Pages 81-92

  3. Principles of

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Storage, Processing and Preservation

      • John N. Kearney
      Pages 95-107

    3. Cryopreservation

      • David Pegg
      Pages 109-121

    4. Sterilisation by Irradiation

      • Artur Kaminski, Izabela Uhrynowska-Tyszkiewicz, Waclaw Stachowicz
      Pages 123-138

  4. Ensuring Safety by

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Testing the Donor

      • Alan Kitchen, John Barbara
      Pages 141-165

    3. Testing the Tissue and the Environment

      • Ted Eastlund, Martell K. Winters
      Pages 167-187

  5. Ensuring Quality by

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Establishing a Quality System

      • Scott A. Brubaker
      Pages 191-215

    3. IT System

      • Linda Lodge
      Pages 217-228

  6. Legal and Ethical Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Regulatory and Ethical Issues

      • David Pegg
      Pages 231-241
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About this book

Tissue banking is undergoing a paradigm shift. There are now a plethora of guidance and regulatory documents, in response to recent regulation. There is however, relatively little information on the scientific and technical principles on routine tissue banking practices. The information that exists is relatively old and in somewhat obscure journals. This book attempts to provide a coherent and up to date approach. Each author, who is a recognized expert in their field, was asked to illustrate the processes involved in modern tissue banking practices. Where these are based on evidence and science, they were asked to explain this in a clear and concise manner. Where evidence it is not available, the authors were asked to provide the reasons why they believe practices have developed the way they have. This could range from the precautionary principle, custom and practice, common sense approach etc. This book has been split into 5 sections: Management of donors and the banking of common tissues and cells, principles of storage and processing of tissues, ensuring safety of the products by testing the donor, the tissue and the environment, ensuring quality of the products by establishing a quality system and an IT infrastructure and the Regulatory and ethical environment in which we operate. Although it is possible to bank all types of cells, including stem cells, these are not covered in this book. The organisation and target audiences for stem cells are quite different from those of tissues. Cord blood banking, on the other hand is very similar and they have therefore been included. The intention of this book is to cover the basis of current practices, rather than future developments, such as embryonic cell developments, tissue engineering and gene therapy. These are more akin to cellular therapies. Although they share many banking similarities to tissues, their inclusion in this book would have made it too cumbersome.

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  • Service, Scottish National Blood Transfusion, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    George Galea

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