Part I: Tissue Engineered Wound Repair Models

1. An In Vivo Model System for Evaluation of the Host Response to Biomaterials

Brian Sicari, Neill Turner, and Stephen Badylak

2. Urothelial Cell Culture

Yuanyuan Zhang and Anthony Atala

3. Cell Populated Collagen Lattices Contraction Model for the

Investigation of Fibroblast Collagen Interactions

H Paul Ehrlich, and Kurtis E Moyer,

4. A Tissue-engineered Corneal Wound Healing Model for the Characterization of Reepithelialization

Karine Zaniolo, Patrick Carrier, Sylvain L. Guérin, François A. Auger and Lucie Germain

Part II: Stem Cells and Would Repair

5. Adult Stem Cells in Small Animal Wound Healing Models

Nauta, Allison C., Gurtner, Geoffrey C., Longaker, and Michael T.,

6. Novel Animal Models for Tracking the Fate and Contributions of Bone Marrow Derived Cells in Diabetic Healing

Robert C. Caskey and Kenneth W. Liechty

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8. Cell-Based Therapies for Myocardial Repair: Emerging Role for Bone Marrow Derived Mesencymal Stem Cells (MSCs) in the Treatment of the Chronically Injured Heart

Jose S. Da Silva and Joshua M. Hare

9. A Model System for Primary Abdominal Closures

Michael J. Yost, Mary O. Morales, Veronica Rodriguez-Rivera, Eric M. Yost, Louis Terracio and Stephen A. Fann

Part III: Skin and Corneal Wound Repair Models

10. Alternatives for Animal Wound Model Systems

Phil Stephens, Matthew Caley, and Matthew Peake

11. Novel Methods for the Investigation of Human Hypertrophic Scarring and other Dermal Fibrosis

Dariush Honardoust^, Peter Kwan, Moein Momtazi, Jie Ding , and Edward E Tredget

12. Study of the Human Chronic Wound Tissue: Addressing Logistic Barriers and Productive use of Laser Capture Microdissection

Sashwati Roy and Chandan K Sen

13. The Wound Watch: An Objective Staging System for Wounds in the Diabetic (db/db) Mouse Model

G. Pietramaggiori, S. Scherer, and DP. Orgill,

14. Human Ex vivo Wound Healing Model

Stojadinovic Olivera and Marjana Tomic - Canic

15. Murine Models of Human Wound Healing

Jerry S. Chen, Michael T. Longaker, and Geoffrey C. Gurtner

Part IV: Cardiovascular Wound Healing Models

16. A Corneal Scarring Model

Daniel J. Gibson and Gregory S. Schultz

17. A Novel and Efficient Model of Coronary Artery Ligation in the Mouse

Erhe Gao and Walter J. Koch

18. Cardiac Wound Healing Post-Myocardial Infarction: A Novel Method to Target Extracellular Matrix Remodeling in the Left Ventricle

Rogelio Zamilpa, Jianhua Zhang, Ying Ann Chiao, Lisandra de Castro Bras, Ganesh Halade, Yonggang Ma, Sander O. Hacker, and Merry L. Lindsey

19. Injury Models to Study Cardiac Remodeling in the Mouse: Myocardial Infarction and Ischemia-reperfusion

Daniel J. Luther, Charles K. Thodeti, and J. Gary Meszaros

20. Cryoinjury Models of the Adult and Neonatal Mouse Heart for Studies of Scarring and Regeneration

Erik G. Strungs, Emily L. Ongstad, Michael P. O'Quinn, Joseph A. Palatinus, L. Jane Jourdan, and Robert G. Gourdie

21. Targeting Wnt Signaling to Improve Wound Healing after Myocardial Infarction

Evangelos P. Daskalopoulos, Ben J.A. Janssen and W. Matthijs Blankesteijn

22. Vascular Connexins in Restenosis after Balloon Injury

Sandrine Morel and Brenda R. Kwak

Part V: Non Mammalian and Mammalian Models of Regenerative Repair

23. Gain-of-function Assays in the Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) to Identify