Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Laparoscopic Experimental Surgery Models
(Natalie Bath, MD, Demetrius Litwin, MD, Paulo N. Martins, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center, University Campus, Worcester, MA, and others)
Chapter 2. Experimental Models of Sepsis
(Norbert Nemeth, MD, PhD, Mihai Oltean MD, PhD, and Bela Fulesdi MD, PhD, Department of Operative Techniques and Surgical Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, and others)
Chapter 3. Bariatric Experimental Surgery Models
(Osman Bilgin Gulcicek, MD, Istanbul Bagcilar Training and Research Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey)
Chapter 4. Animal Models of Heart Failure
(Mouer Wang, MD, Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA)
Chapter 5. Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Experimental Models
(Paulo N. Martins, MD, PhD, Natalie Bath, MD, Adel Bozorgzadeh, MD, Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, UMass Memorial Medical Center, University Campus, Worcester, MA)
Chapter 6. Animal Models of Acute Graft-Versus-Host and Host-Versus-Graft Responses and Diseases
(Abraham Matar and Raimon Duran-Struuck, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, and others)
Chapter 7. Microfluidic Devices and Micro-Dissected Tissue to Predict Therapeutic Response in Patients with Prostate Cancer
(Robin Guay-Lord, Muhammed Abdul Lateef, PhD, Kayla Simeone, Benjamin Péant, PhD, Jennifer Kendall-Dupont, Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, PhD, Thomas Gervais, PhD, and Fred Saad, MD, Department of Molecular Biology, Surgery and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Chapter 8. Of Mice and Rats: Animal Models for Use in Laparoscopy and Laparotomy with Human Ovarian Cancer Cell Line Intraperitoneal Xenografts
(Philippe Sauthier, MD, Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, PhD, Louise Champoux, Michèle Bally, PhD, Diane M. Provencher, MD, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montreal, Canada)
Chapter 9. Organ Bioengineering through Decellularization and Recellularization Approaches
(Maria Jaramillo, PhD, Basak E. Uygun, PhD, Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, US)
Chapter 10. Wound Healing and Scarring
(A. Samandar Dowlatshahi, MD, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA)
Chapter 11. Organ Preservation
(Cheng Yang MD, PhD, Jiawei Li MD, Ruiming Rong MD, PhD, Department of Urology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation; Shanghai, China, and others)
Chapter 12. Machine Organ Preservation
(Hazel L. Marecki, Isabel Brüggenwirth, Paulo N. Martins, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, US)
Chapter 13. Microcirculation
(Norbert Nemeth, MD, PhD, and Andrea Szabo MD, PhD, Department of Operative Techniques and Surgical Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary)
Chapter 14. Experimental Gene Therapy Using Naked DNA
(Eiji Kobayashi MD, PhD, Department of Organ Fabrication, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Chapter 15. Robotic Surgery in Experimental Medicine
(Sandra S.Y. Kim, David Ian Harriman, MD, and Christopher Nguan, MD, Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia)
Index