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Perspectives in Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation: Review of the Conference of the German Society for Clinical Microcirculation and Hemorheology 2010

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During the 29th conference of the German Society for Clinical Microcirculation and Hemorheology – held in the Freie Universitat Berlin a broad range of different topics of experimental and clinical studies in the field were presented. A special spotlight was dedicated to the Conference President’s (Prof. Dr. J. Plendl, Head of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy) scientific area “Anatomical and Experimental Microcirculation” [5, 6, 9, 13]. Of special interest were the angiogenetic studies: Examinations of the influence of PDGF-BB on adipose-tissue derived stem cells and how these influence angiogenesis [9] and the angiogenesis and healing with non-shrinking, fast degradable PLGA/CaP scaffolds in critical-sized defects in the rabbit femur with or without osteogenically mesenchymal stem cells were evaluated [6]. The influence of angiopoetins on angiogenesis was also analyzed [5]. In an anatomical study, it was then shown how the specific vascular anatomy of pigs allows acute infrarenal aortic occlusion without hind limb ischemia and stepwise occlusion without clinical signs [13]. Thereafter, studies from the field of Clinical Hemorheology were presented. A study of Franke et al. showing for the first time the different impact of radiographic contrast media on the morphology of human arterial versus venous endothelial cells was presented [8]. In addition, talks on monocytes – the influence of the sorting process on cell function [17] and on monocyte adhesion to endothelium exposed to nonuniform shear stress [2] were given. Also the shear stress required for tether formation of neonatal and