1. Editorial: Hydrogels and hydrocolloids—part of the symposia program of the 7th world biomaterials congress, May 17–21, 2004, Sydney, Australia

   • Christine Wandrey

   Editorial Pages: 489 - 489

2. Towards a medically approved technology for alginate-based microcapsules allowing long-term immunoisolated transplantation

   • H. Zimmermann
   • D. Zimmermann
   • U. Zimmermann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 491 - 501

3. Review Peripheral nerve regeneration using non-tubular alginate gel crosslinked with covalent bonds

   • Tadashi Hashimoto
   • Yoshihisa Suzuki
   • Chizuka Ide

   OriginalPaper Pages: 503 - 509

4. Alginate assessment by NMR microscopy

   • S. C. Grant
   • S. Celper
   • I. Constantinidis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 511 - 514

5. Comparison of bone marrow cell growth on 2D and 3D alginate hydrogels

   • J. E. Barralet
   • L. Wang
   • R. M. Shelton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 515 - 519

6. Effects of alginate encapsulation on mitochondrial activity

   • J. Oca-Cossio
   • N. E. Simpson
   • I. Constantinidis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 521 - 524

7. Influence of alginate on type II collagen fibrillogenesis

   • Shyh Ming Kuo
   • Yng Jiin Wang
   • Shwu Jen Chang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 525 - 531

8. Morphology and metabolism of Ba-alginate encapsulated hepatocytes with galactosylated poly(allyl amine) and poly(vinyl alcohol) as extracellular matrices

   • Inn-Kyu Kang
   • Jong-Sik Moon
   • Sukyoung Kim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 533 - 539

9. The effect of alginate, hyaluronate and hyaluronate derivatives biomaterials on synthesis of non-articular chondrocyte extracellular matrix

   • C. Gerard
   • C. Catuogno
   • E. Payan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 541 - 551

10. Evaluation of injection augmentation treatment of hyaluronic acid based materials on rabbit vocal folds viscoelasticity

    • A. Borzacchiello
    • L. Mayol
    • L. Ambrosio

    OriginalPaper Pages: 553 - 557

11. A new process for cell microencapsulation and other biomaterial applications: Thermal gelation and chemical cross-linking in “tandem”

    • F. Cellesi
    • N. Tirelli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 559 - 565

12. Evaluation of chitosan/β-tricalcium phosphate microspheres as a constituent to PMMA cement

    • Li-Chun Lin
    • Shwu-Jen Chang
    • Chia Hung Kuo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 567 - 574

13. Physical properties and biocompatibility of chitosan/soy blended membranes

    • S. S. Silva
    • M. I. Santos
    • R. L. Reis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 575 - 579

14. Fibrillar collagen assembled in the presence of glycosaminoglycans to constitute bioartificial stem cell niches in vitro

    • K. Salchert
    • J. Oswald
    • C. Werner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 581 - 585

15. Synthesis and properties of melt-processable hyaluronan esters

    • Min Zhang
    • S. P. James

    OriginalPaper Pages: 587 - 593