Bone Research Unit

Chapters in books

1. Ripamonti U. Cranial regeneration with allogeneic and alloplastic matrices in nonhealing calvarial craniotomies. In Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery. Proceedings of the XVI World Congress of the International College of Surgeons. M Montorsi, P Granelli, (Eds.) Monduzzi Editore, Milan, 1988; 11: 105-107.
2. Ripamonti U, Petit J-C, Grossman ES. The hard periodontal tissues of the Australopithecinae. Proceedings of the Electron Microscopy Society of South Africa. 1989; 19: 141-142.
3. Ripamonti U. A suggested case of prepubertal periodontitis in Australopithecus africanus. In Hominidae. Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress of Human Palaeontology. Editoriale Jaca Book, Milano, 1989; pp 129-132.
4. Ripamonti U. Inductive bone matrix and porous hydroxyapatite composites in rodents and nonhuman primates. In Handbook of Bioactive Ceramics, Volume II: Calcium Phosphate and Hydroxylapatite Ceramics. T Yamamuro, J Wilson-Hench, L L Hench, (Eds.) CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1990; pp 245-253.
5. Ripamonti U. Primate model: Evaluation of bone substitutes in craniofacial reconstruction. In Bone Grafts and Bone Substitutes. Chapter 21. M B Habal and A H Reddi, (Eds.) W B Saunders, Philadelphia, 1992; pp 235-240.
6. Ripamonti U. The generation of bone in primates by bone morphogenetic proteins. In Bone Morphogenetic Proteins: Biological Characteristics and Reconstructive Repair. Chapter 13. TS Lindholm, (Ed.) RG Landes Company and Academic Press, Inc., 1996; pp. 131-145.
7. Ripamonti U. Induction of cementogenesis and periodontal ligament regeneration by bone morphogenetic proteins. In Bone Morphogenetic Proteins: Biological Characteristics and Reconstructive Repair. Chapter 17. TS Lindholm, (Ed.) RG Landes Company and Academic Press, Inc., 1996; pp. 189-198.
8. Ripamonti U, Kirkbride AN. Porous hydroxyapatite with intrinsic osteoinductive activity. Transactions of the 5th World Biomaterials Congress. Toronto, Vol. 2, 1996; pp. 846.
9. Ripamonti U. Smart biomaterials and bone morphogenetic proteins: Geometric induction of bone formation. Transactions of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Biomaterials. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1997.
10. Ripamonti U. Bone Regeneration. In Regeneration Medicine and Tissue Engineering. Chapter V-6. K. Sames (Ed). Germany, Ecomed, 2000; pp. 1-6.
11. Ripamonti U. Prospects for Tissue Engineering of Bone. In Regeneration Medicine and Tissue Engineering. Chapter XI-3. K. Sames (Ed). Germany, Ecomed, 2000; pp. 1-7.
12. Ripamonti U. The Morphogenesis of Bone by Intrinsic Osteoinductive Biomaterials: Geometric Induction of Bone Differentiation. Workshop: Biomaterials with Intrinsic Osteoinductivity. Proceedings of the 6th World Biomaterials Congress, May 2000.
13. Ripamonti U. Smart biomaterials with intrinsic osteoinductivity; Geometric control of bone differentiation. In JE Davis (Ed.), Bone Engineering., EM2 Corporation, Toronto, Canada, 2000; pp 215-222.
14. Ripamonti U. Introduzione: induzione di morfogenesi tissutale e rigenerazione mediante idrossiapatite. In Fattori di crescita e biomateriali (Tissue Engineering), Introduction. In C Mangano (Ed.), Masson, Milano, 2000; pp ix-xiv.
15. Ripamonti U, Dal Mas I. Ingegneria tissutale: Segnali molecolari in idrossiapatiti con induzione ossea intrinseca. In Fattori di crescita e biomateriali (Tissue Engineering), Chapter 2. In C Mangano (Ed.), Masson, Milano, 2000; pp 33-46.
16. Thomas ME, Richter PE, Crooks J, Ripamonti U. Smart calcium phosphate-based bioceramics with intrinsic osteoinductivity. Proceedings of the 13th Int. Symposium on Ceramics in Medicine, Bologna, Italy, 2000; pp 441-444.
17. Ripamonti U, Tasker JR. Bone induction by transforming growth factor-ß in the primate and synergistic interaction with bone morphogenetic proteins. In TS Lindholm (Ed.), Advances in Skeletal Reconstruction Using Bone Morphogenetic Proteins . World Scientific Publ. Co. Singapore, 2002; pp 79-95.
18. Ripamonti U, Ferretti C. Mandibular reconstruction using naturally-derived bone morphogenetic proteins: A clinical trial report. In TS Lindholm (Ed.), Advances in Skeletal Reconstruction Using Bone Morphogenetic Proteins . World Scientific Publ. Co. Singapore, 2002; pp 277-289.
19. Ripamonti U. Osteogenic proteins of the transforming growth factor-ß superfamily. In HL Henry and AW Norman (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Hormones. Academic Press, 2003; pp 80- 86.
20. Ripamonti U, Ramoshebi LN, Patton J, Matsaba T, Teare J, Renton L. Soluble signals and insoluble substrata: Novel molecular cues instructing the induction of bone. In EJ Massaro and JM Rogers (Eds.), The Skeleton. Humana Press, 2004; in press
21. Ripamonti U, Ramoshebi LN, Patton J, Teare J, Matsaba T, Renton L. Sculpturing the architecture of mineralized tissues: Tissue engineering of bone from soluble signals to smart biomimetic matrices. In RH Müller and O Kayser (Eds.), Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. Wiley-VCH, 2004; in press