1. Editorial

   • Hans Burchardt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 1

2. A review of osteoinductive testing methods and sterilization processes for demineralized bone

   • Julie Glowacki

   Review Article Pages: 3 - 12

3. Extractable bone morphogenetic protein and correlation with induced new bone formation in an in vivo assay in the athymic mouse model

   • Sittisak Honsawek
   • Ralph M. Powers
   • Lloyd Wolfinbarger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 23

4. Detection of living cells in non-processed but deep-frozen bone allografts

   • Ide C. Heyligers
   • Jenneke Klein-Nulend

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 31

5. Demineralized bone promotes chondrocyte or osteoblast differentiation of human marrow stromal cells cultured in collagen sponges

   • Shuanhu Zhou
   • Karen E. Yates
   • Julie Glowacki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 44

6. Phenotypic analysis of bovine chondrocytes cultured in 3D collagen sponges: effect of serum substitutes

   • Karen E. Yates
   • Florin Allemann
   • Julie Glowacki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 54

7. Osteogenic cell contact with biomaterials influences phenotype expression

   • Dorota Kudelska-Mazur
   • Małgorzata Lewandowska-Szumieł
   • Janusz Komender

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 64

8. Tissue banking in South Africa: a 19-year history

   • B.G.P. Lindeque
   • A.M. Lindeque
   • T.L.B. Le Roux

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 70

9. A method for the determination of the residual chloroform in defatted cancellous bone transplants

   • Ulrich Kalus
   • Helga Müller
   • Axel Pruss

   Short Communication Pages: 71 - 75

10. News in Brief

    OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 70

11. News from the Internet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 80

12. Calendar of Events

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 82