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Editorial
. 2012 Dec 21;18(47):6874-5.
doi: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i47.6874.

Regenerative medicine technology applied to gastroenterology: current status and future perspectives

Giuseppe Orlando
Editorial

Regenerative medicine technology applied to gastroenterology: current status and future perspectives

Giuseppe Orlando. World J Gastroenterol. .

Abstract

This special issue of World Journal of Gastroenterology has been conceived to illustrate to gastroenterology operators the role that regenerative medicine (RM) will have in the progress of gastrointestinal (GI) medicine. RM is a multidisciplinary field aiming to replace, regenerate or repair diseased tissues or organs. The past decade has been marked by numerous ground-breaking achievements that led experts in the field to manufacture functional substitutes of relatively simple organs. This progress is paving the ground for investigations that aims to the bioengineering and regeneration of more complex organs like livers, pancreas and intestine. In this special issue, the reader will be introduced, hand-in-hand, to explore the field of RM and will be educated on the progress, pitfalls and promise of RM technologies as applied to GI medicine.

Keywords: Gastroenterology; Regenerative medicine.

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