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Jim Kretlow

Bioengineering (Rice University)

Undergraduate Institution: Rice University

Year: Fifth-Year Graduate Student

Mentor: Antonios G. Mikos, Ph.D.

Thesis Title: Biomaterials Based Strategies for Craniofacial Tissue Engineering

Publications:

Guo X, Park H, Young S, Kretlow JD, van den Beucken JJ, Baggett LS, Tabata Y, Kasper FK, Mikos AG, Jansen JA. Repair of osteochondral defects with biodegradable hydrogel composites encapsulating marrow mesenchymal stem cells in a rabbit model. Acta Biomater. 2009; in press.

Kretlow JD, Young S, Klouda L, Wong M, Mikos AG. Injectable biomaterials for regenerating complex craniofacial tissues. Adv Mat. 2009; in press.

Wu W, Jin YQ, Kretlow JD, Xu L, Duan HC, Qi ZL. Purification of Schwann cells from adult rats by differential detachment. Biotechnol Lett. 2009; in press.

Young S, Patel ZS, Kretlow JD, Murphy MB, Mountziaris PM, Baggett LS, Ueda H, Tabata Y, Wong M, Mikos AG. Dose effect of dual delivery of VEGF and BMP-2 on bone regeneration in a rat critical size defect model. Tissue Eng Part A. 2009; in press.

Klouda L, Hacker MC, Kretlow JD, Mikos AG. Cytocompatibility evaluation of amphiphilic, thermally responsive and chemically crosslinkable macromers for in situ forming hydrogels. Biomaterials. 2009; (30)27:4558-66.

Xia W, Jin YQ, Kretlow JD, Liu W, Ding W, Sun H, Zhou G, Zhang W, Cao Y. Adenoviral transduction of hTGF-b1 enhances the chondrogeneses of bone marrow derived stromal cells. Biotechnol Lett. 2009; (31)6:639-46.

Hacker MC, Klouda L, Ma BB, Kretlow JD, Mikos AG. Synthesis and characterization of injectable, thermally and chemically gelable, amphiphilic poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-based macromers. Biomacromolecules. 2008; (9)6:1558-70.

Kretlow JD, Jin YQ, Liu W, Zhang WJ, Hong TH, Zhou G, Baggett LS, Mikos AG, Cao Y. Donor age and cell passage affects differentiation potential of murine bone marrow-derived stem cells. BMC Cell Biol. 2008; (9):60.

Kretlow JD, Mikos AG. From material to tissue: Biomaterial development, scaffold fabrication, and tissue engineering. AIChE J. 2008; (54)12:3048-67.

Young S, Kretlow JD, Nguyen C, Bashoura AG, Baggett LS, Jansen JA, Wong M, Mikos AG. Microcomputed tomography characterization of neovascularization in bone tissue engineering applications. Tissue Eng Part B Rev. 2008; (14)3:295-306.

Kretlow JD, Klouda L, Mikos AG. Injectable matrices and scaffolds for drug delivery in tissue engineering. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2007; (59)4-5:263-73.

Kretlow JD, Mikos AG. Review: Mineralization of synthetic polymer scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. Tissue Eng. 2007; (13)5:927-38.