regenerative medicine
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First coinage is widely attributed (incorrectly as it turns out) to William Haseltine (founder of Human Genome Sciences).[1] From the work of Michael Lysaght (Brown University), his team "first found the term in a 1992 article on hospital administration by Leland Kaiser. Kaiser’s paper closes with a series of short paragraphs on future technologies that will impact hospitals. One such paragraph had ‘‘Regenerative Medicine’’ as a bold print title and went on to state, ‘‘A new branch of medicine will develop that attempts to change the course of chronic disease and in many instances will regenerate tired and failing organ systems.’’[2][3]
Noun[edit]
regenerative medicine (countable and uncountable, plural regenerative medicines)
- Medicine that replaces or regenerates human cells, tissue or organs, to restore or establish normal function.[4][5]
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf0450/ Viola, J., Lal, B., and Grad, O. The Emergence of Tissue Engineering as a Research Field. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, 2003.
- ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1631884 Kaiser, L. The future of multihospital systems. Top Healthcare Finance 18, 32, 1992
- ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez Lysaght MJ, Crager J. Origins. Tissue Eng Part A. 2009 Jul;15(7):1449-50
- ^ Mason C. and Dunnill P. (2008) A brief definition of regenerative medicine. Regenerative Medicine. 3(1), 1-5.
- ^ Regenerative Medicine Glossary. (2009) Regenerative Medicine, 4(4s), S2.37.