Fibrinkleber werden seit Jahrzehnten erfolgreich in der Wundheilung und in der Nervenklebung angewandt und finden einen breiten Einsatz in allen Gebieten der Chirurgie. Es ist Anliegen der vorliegenden Monographie, das Indikationsspektrum fur den Einsatz des Fibrinklebers insbesondere in der Thorax- und Kardiovaskularchirurgie zu beleuchten."

As dogmas in stem cell research are losing their impact and recent findings regarding the use and cultivation of stem cells and tissue transplantation have opened up new therapeutic avenues, this Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop was initiated to highlight current and future approaches in this field. The only stem cells that have been used clinically for a long time is the hematopoietic stem cell as a source for bone marrow transplantation. Recent findings now indicate that hematopoietic stem cells, under certain conditions, are able to differentiate into endothelial, neural or...