Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current status of renal transplantation / Christopher J. Callaghan and Andrew J. Bradley -- Current status of liver transplantation / Peter J. Friend and Charles J. Imber -- Current status of clinical islet cell transplantation / Jonathan R.T. Lakey, Mohammadreza Mirbolooki, and A.M. James Shapiro -- Current status of lung transplantation / Allan R. Glanville -- Chronic rejection in the heart / Philip Hornick and Marlene Rose -- Direct and indirect allorecognition / Philip Hornick -- HLA typing and its influence on organ transplantation / Stephene Sheldon and Kay Poulton -- Strategies for gene transfer to solid organs : viral vectors / Charlotte Lawson -- Nonviral vectors / Louise Collins -- Detection and clinical relevance of antibodies after transplantation / John D. Smith and Marlene Rose --

Reprogramming the immune system using antibodies / Luis Graca and Hermann Waldmann -- In vitro assays for immune monitoring in transplantation / Maria P. Hernandez-Fuentes and Alan Salama -- Proteomics and laser microdissection / Emma McGregor and Ayesha De Souza -- Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction in cardiac transplant research / Leanne E. Felkin, Ann B. Taegtmeyer, and Paul J.R. Barton -- Organ preservation / Mark Hicks ... [et al.] -- Pharmacological manipulation of the rejection response / Peter Mark Anthony Hopkins -- Experimental models of graft arteriosclerosis / Bezhad Soleimani and Victor C. Shi.