The importance of establishing an international network of tissue banks and regional tissue processing centers
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ORIGINAL PAPER
The importance of establishing an international network of tissue banks and regional tissue processing centers Jorge Morales Pedraza
Received: 21 February 2013 / Accepted: 23 May 2013 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Abstract During the past four decades, many tissue banks have been established across the world with the aim of supplying sterilized tissues for clinical use and research purposes. Between 1972 and 2005, the International Atomic Energy Agency supported the establishment of more than sixty of these tissue banks in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, Africa and Eastern Europe; promoted the use of the ionizing radiation technique for the sterilization of the processed tissues; and encouraged cooperation between the established tissue banks during the implementation of its program on radiation and tissue banking at national, regional and international levels. Taking into account that several of the established tissue banks have gained a rich experience in the procurement, processing, sterilization, storage, and medical use of sterilized tissues, it is time now to strengthen further international and regional cooperation among interested tissue banks located in different countries. The purpose of this cooperation is to share the experience gained by these banks in the procurement, processing, sterilization, storage, and used of different types of tissues in certain medical treatments and research activities. This could be done through the establishment of a network of tissue banks
J. Morales Pedraza (&) Charasgasse 3/13, 1030 Vienna, Austria e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
and a limited number of regional tissue processing centers in different regions of the world. Keywords Tissue banks IAEA WHO International network of tissue banks Regional tissue processing centers
Introduction During the past four decades, many tissue banks have been established in all regions of the world with the aim of supplying high quality sterilized tissues to hospitals, other medical institutions, and research centers for their use in certain medical treatments and in specific research activities. The establishment of more than sixty of these tissue banks and the role played by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO), and governments of the different countries in which these banks are located, has been described in detail in several publications.1
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Articles related with this process can be found in the following journals and books: Cell and Tissue Banking Vol. 4, No. 2–4, 2003 and Vol. 10, No. 2, 2009, published by Springer; Advances in Tissue Banking Vol. 7, 2004, published by World Publishing Co., and in the book entitled ‘‘The Use of the Ionizing Radiation Technique for Tissue Sterilization: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Experience’’, 2012, published by Nova Science.
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