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ETRS ANNUAL MEETING, PISA 2006

• SELECTED ABSTRACTS
  from 14 September (Pisa meeting)
  • HUMAN EPITHELIAL STEM CELLS IN REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
  • GENETIC APPROACHES TO WOUND HEALING
  • TISSUE ENGINEERING OF URINARY TISSUE
  • ANGIOGENIC AND LYMPHANGIOGENIC STRATEGIES IN HUMAN DISEASES: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM FISH, FROGS AND MICE ?
  • ELEVATED MATRIX-METALLOPROTEINASE ACTIVITY IN CHRONIC WOUND FLUID
  • THE NEUROISCHEMIC DIABETIC FOOT: THE ITALIAN EXPERIENCE
  • AMELOGENIN ACTIVITY: IN VITRO DATA
  • TREATMENT OF INFECTED LEG WOUNDS FOLLOWING SAPHENOUS VEIN HARVESTING
  • COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF POLYHYDRATED IONOGENS/HONEY BASED DRESSINGS AND SILVER BASED DRESSINGS ON THE HEALING OF VENOUS LEG ULCERS
  • TOPICAL APPLICATION OF S-NITROSOGLUTATHIONE-CONTAINING HYDROGEL DURING DIFFERENT PHASES OF WOUNDING IMPROVES RAT CUTANEOUS WOUND REPAIR
  • BIOAVAILABILITY OF TGF-BETA AND INDUCTION OF CELL PROLIFERATION IN AUTOLOGOUS PLATELET GEL PREPARATIONS FOR WOUND CLOSURE

ETRS ANNUAL MEETING, PISA 2006

• SELECTED ABSTRACTS
  from 15 September (Pisa meeting)
• PREVENTION OF SKIN SCARRING
• LOCAL AND SYSTEMIC WARMING, SURGICAL SITE INFECTION AND MICROBIOLOGY
• UPDATE ON 3D WOUND ASSESSMENT
• DESIGNING A WOUND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION IN CLINICAL TRIALS AND ROUTINE CLINICAL PRACTICE
• PLACENTA GROWTH FACTOR IN SKIN REPAIR
• A VIEW OF THE CLINICAL ASPECTS OF KELOIDS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT WITH STEROIDS
• AUTOLOGOUS CONDITIONED SERUM (ACS) COMPARED TO HYALURONAN- AND SALINE-INJECTIONS FOR REGENERATIVE TREATMENT OF KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
• EVALUATION OF THE CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS OF A COLLAGEN-ORC ANTIMICROBIAL MATRIX IN VENOUS LEG ULCERATIONS
• POLYACRYLATE-SUPERABSORBER INHIBITS EXCESSIVE METALLOPROTEASE ACTIVITY IN WOUND FLUID FROM NON-HEALING WOUNDS
• FIRST EVALUATIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF PHOTOSENSITIZER DRUGS COMBINED WITH LOW LEVELS OF VISIBLE LIGHT ON CUTANEOUS WOUND HEALING USING IN VITRO RECONSTRUCTED TISSUES

ETRS ANNUAL MEETING, PISA 2006

• SELECTED ABSTRACTS
  from 16 September (Pisa meeting)
• LIVER REGENERATION AND REPAIR
• GUIDED REGENERATION OF SMALL DIAMETER ARTERY USING HYALURONIC ACID BASED PROSTHESIS
• SKIN REGENERATION AFTER ACCIDENTAL GAMMA IRRADIATION USING MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL
  THERAPY
• OXIDATIVE STRESS HYPOTHESIS AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATION: MOLECULAR IMPLICATIONS AND PREVENTIVE THERAPEUTICAL STRATEGIES
• EPIDERMAL REGENERATION FROM CORNEAL EPITHELIUM
• THE ROLE OF PATHOLOGY IN CHRONIC WOUNDS DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
• CLINICAL AND HISTOLOGICAL CORRELATION IN CHRONIC WOUNDS: SERIES OF CASE REPORT
• INFLAMMATION DURING WOUND REPAIR: FRIEND OR FOE?
• FIBROBLAST-KERATINOCYTE-INTERACTIONS LEAD TO THE RECONSTITUTION OF AN EPITHELIAL PHENOTYPE BY IMMORTALIZED GINGIVAL KERATINOCYTES

ETRS ANNUAL MEETING, PISA 2006

• YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS ABSTRACTS
  Ten Prize-Winning Oral Presentations

• TOPICAL CAPTOPRIL AS A NOVEL AGENT AGAINST HYPERTROPHIC SCAR FORMATION IN NEW ZEALAND WHITE RABBIT SKIN
• VARIATIONS IN INTRINSIC AGEING PATTERNS AND GENE TRANSCRIPTION PROFILES OF RESIDENT FIBROBLASTS MAY EXPLAIN SCARRING VERSUS SCARLESS HEALING
• EVALUATION OF THE USE OF AN IMMUNODEPLETION COLUMN FOR THE PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF CHRONIC WOUND FLUID
• EFFECTS OF CULTURED ALLOGENEIC FIBROBLASTS ON THE BASEMENT MEMBRANE ZONE OF IN-VITRO MODELS OF RECESSIVE DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA
• VEGF AND FGF2 INCREASE ANGIOGENESIS AND BLOOD VESSEL MATURATION IN ACELLULAR SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING
• CULTURED DIABETIC DERMAL FIBROBLASTS EXHIBIT ALTERED PROLIFERATION AND COLLAGEN SECRETION IN RESPONSE TO WOUNDING AND CIRCULATING FACTORS
• A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF AETIOLOGICAL FACTORS AND OUTCOME OF MANAGEMENT OF LOWER EXTREMITY ULCERS
• TIME DEPENDENT VARIATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES -BETA DEFENSINS IN BURN WOUNDS – A KEY TO DESIGN NOVEL ENGINEERED MATRICES TO PREVENT BURN WOUND INFECTIONS
• A CLINICAL STUDY INVESTIGATING TYPE VII COLLAGEN EXPRESSION AT THE DERMAL-EPIDERMAL JUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH RECESSIVE DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA FOLLOWING INTRADERMAL INJECTIONS OF CULTURED ALLOGENEIC HUMAN FIBROBLASTS
• APLIGRAF AS A MODEL OF ACUTE WOUND HEALING: THE EFFECTS OF 17β-ESTRADIOL AND l,450-NM DIODE LASER ON TYPE III COLLAGEN PRODUCTION
  
• Three Prize-Winning Poster Presentations
  • POLYPYRROLE-BASED CONDUCTING POLYMERS AS SUBSTRATES IN SKIN TISSUE ENGINEERING
  • STIMULATION OF CUTANEOUS WOUND HEALING BY REPEATED TOPICAL APPLICATION OF IGF-I: DIFFERENT MECHANISMS OF ACTION IN RESPECT TO THE IGF-I DELIVERY
  • TRANSFECTION WITH A TETRACYCLIN INDUCIBLE VEGF165 PLASMID RESULTS IN TRANSIENT REGULABLE HIGH EXPRESSION OF VEGF165 IN VITRO AND IN VIVO

MARCH 2005

• DIABETIC VASCULAR DISEASE AND WOUND COMPLICATIONS
  ETRS Focus Meeting, March 2005, Southampton, UK
  • Pressure offloading and ‘advanced’ wound healing, isn’t it finally time for an arranged marriage?
  • A diabetes foot protection team reduces duration of admission for diabetic foot disease
  • Foot and Ankle Fractures in Diabetic Patients and the Risk of Developing Charcot Foot
  • Fungal Skin and Nail Infection in Diabetics
  • Metabolic Syndrome: Prevention and medical management
  • Omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil and cardiovascular disease
  • Ultrasound – what is its rôle in wound healing?
  • Diabetic Foot Infections Are Different in the Neuroischaemic Foot compared with the Neuropathic Foot
  • Autologous Platelet Concentrate enriched with Growth Factors (APC+) Treatment for Handling Chronic Diabetic Foot Ulcerations – Implementing Growth Factors as a New Treatment Modality
  • The pathogenesis of the acute Charcot foot: a unifying hypothesis
  • Assessment of viability of the critical foot
  • Some mechanical properties of skin in the diabetic studied non-invasively
  • Diagnosis of Human Diabetic Neuropathy
  • The relationship between Plantar Pressure Loading and Cutaneous Perfusion in the Diabetic Foot
  • Plantar pressures and neuropathic ulcers: from histology to clinical findings
  • Does podiatry alter patient’s perception of risk of diabetic foot ulceration?
  • Impact of Peripheral Vascular Disease on Plantar Pressure in type 2 Diabetic patients with Neuroischaemic Feet
  • Microvascular reactivity and anglogenic potential in diabetic patients with and without risk of foot ulceration
  • The Efficacy of Poly Hydrated Ionogens in achieving stable wound closure in Recalcitrant Diabetic Foot Ulcers: a multicentre phase-1 pilot study
  • Diabetes in India-what can we do to stem the tide?
  • The Mechanics of Wound Healing: The Ultrasonic Biopsy
  • Venous disease in diabetes – what is the evidence?
  • Systemic management of necrotizing fasciitis in lower extremity of the diabetes mellitus
  • New Method of Diabetic Ulcers Treatment using Sodium Hyaluronate and an Iodine Complex
  • The Collagenolytic Activity of Blood Plasma in Diabetic Patients with Foot Ulcers
  • Aggressive Interventional Management of the Ischemic Diabetic Foot Candidate to Lower Limb Amputation
  • Microcirculation in the Diabetic Foot – Its Rôle in Impaired Healing of Foot Wounds
  • A Case Study showing the use of a Kerraboot™ for a patient with numerous ulcers on the lower limb

2005

• Abstracts from the ETRS STUTTGART MEETING - Young Investigators Awards
  • Design of a novel proteolysis resistant VEGF variant
  • Role of Shc family signaling protein in mesenchymal stem cell
  • Chronic wound fibroblasts: ageing before their time?
  • Wound-healing defect of CD18-/- mice due to a decrease in TGF-b1 and myofibroblast differentiation
  • The fate of human mesenchymal stem cells bone regeneration
  • Upregulation of lysyl hydroxylase 2 b in wound healing leads to altered collagen cross-linking

SEPTEMBER 2003

• Abstracts from the Thirteenth Annual ETRS Meeting - Amsterdam
  • ABSTINENCE FROM SMOKING ENHANCES NEUTROPHIL BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY AND REDUCES WOUND INFECTION
  • MULTIPLE KERATINOCYTE PHENOTYPES ARE INVOLVED IN ACUTE AND CHRONIC WOUND RE-EPITHELIALISATION
  • INDOCYANIN GREEN VIDEO ANGIOGRAPHY; QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE EVAULATION OF BURN DEPTH
  • THE DERMAL SCARTCH – A NEW MODEL OF PARTIAL THICKNESS WOUND HEALING IN HUMANS
  • THE CYTOKINE AND IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL PROFILES OF WOUNDS TREATED WITH A LIVING SKIN SUBSTITUTE COMPARED TO SPLIT-SKIN GRAFT OR DRESSING
  • STIMULATION OF SKIN REPAIR DEPENDS OF FIBROBLAST SOURCE
  • COLLAGENASE-3 AND TISSUE INHIBITOR OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES-2 IN FIBROBLAST-MEDIATED COLLAGEN MATRIX REMODELLING
  • DYNAMIC CHARACTERISATION OF THE MOLECULAR EVENTS CONTROLLING DERMAL FIBROBLASTS PROLIFERATION DURING WOUND HEALING
  • ALTERED CROSSLINKING AND THERMAL STABILITY OF COLLAGEN IN CHRONICALLY ISCHAEMIC SKIN

SEPTEMBER 2002

• SELECTED ABSTRACTS FROM THE ETRS FOCUS MEETING - Nice, France
  • Fibrin I, A New Single-Component Fibrin Sealant
  • Design of a novel proteolysis resistant VEGF165 variant
  • Clinical and objective measurement of skin hardness in hypertrophic scars during silicone gel sheeting treatment
  • Mechanistic insights and possible clinical applicability of non-viral liposomal gene therapy
  • Biologics: The (Uphill?) Trek toward Approval and Incorporation into Practice
  • Topical Biologics: Their Contribution to Science and Tissue Repair
  • Keratinocyte growth factors: important players in epithelial repair processes
  • Biological Monitoring of Wounds Treated by Negative Pressure
  • Interaction between mesenchymal stem cells and osteogenic cytokines in vitro and in vivo
  • Pharmacological Scar Control
  • Effect of Noncontact Normothermic Wound Therapy on the Healing of Neuropathic (Diabetic) Foot Ulcers
  • International Clinical Recommendations on Scar Management
  • Smith & Nephew Group Research Centre

SEPTEMBER 2001

• Innovations in Wound Care - Cardiff
  • The Impact of Ageing
  • Problems of Healing in different Tissues
  • Repair in the Eye
  • Angiogenesis
  • Research Studies
  • Diabetes
  • Teaching Session on Models of Healing
  • Young Investigators Prize Session
  • Cyto-Mechanics and Healing
  • Acute Wounds
  • Teaching Session on the Phases of Tissue Repair
  • Stem Cells and Healing
  • Repair in the Renal Tract
  • Fibrosis
  • Research Studies
  • Chronic Disease
  • Teaching Session on Cytokines and Growth Factors
  • Biotechnology and Healing
  • Repair in the Liver
  • Bacteria and Wounds
  • Healing in Specific Tissues
  • Teaching Session on Cell Based Wound Treatments
  • Measurement and Assessment of Healing
  • Ageing and Tissue Repair
• Symposium Proceedings: Outcomes in Wound Healing - Sponsored by Coloplast A/S - Cardiff
• Symposium Proceedings: Outcomes in Wound Healing - Sponsored by Coloplast A/S - PDF copy

MAY 2000

• Preparation of the Wound Bed - Belgium
  • Introduction
  • Objectives of the Meeting
  • Wound Fluid - An Indicator of Wound Bed Status
  • Clinical Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMP's) and TMP's in the status of the Wound Bed
  • The status of the Wound Bed with Non-Invasive Measuring Techniques
  • What is Bacerial Burden in the Wound Bed? Does it matter?
  • The Nurses perspective of Wound Bed status
  • Dressings and Cleansers for Wound Bed preparation; a Pharmacist's view on Rationale and Efficiency
  • Iodine Therapy
  • Development of new Antiseptic for preparing Wound Beds
  • The use of Sterile Maggots in Modern Wound Management
  • A Physicians Clinical Experience of Wound Bed preparation - What is Good Granulation Tissue?
  • Surgical Debridement
  • Enzymatic Debridement
  • VAC (Vacuum Assisted Closure) for the Treatment of Difficult Wounds
  • Debridgement
  • Preparing the Wound Bed for Skin Grafts and Living Skin Equivalents

MARCH 1997

• Measurements in Wound Healing - Southampton, UK