1. An extracorporeal therapeutic system, the system comprising:
a housing;
at least one hollow fiber associated with the housing;
a biomatrix material disposed within the at least one hollow fiber; and
at least one cell disposed within the biomatrix material.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one cell is disposed upon a particle.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the biomatrix material is selected from alginate solution, gelled alginate solution, or physiologic buffer.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the biomatrix material is selected from nutragen or matrigel.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the hollow fiber is disposed within the housing.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the housing comprises an inlet and an outlet.
7. An extracorporeal therapeutic system, the system comprising:
a housing defining an interior space;
a substrate comprising a carbon material coated with niobium disposed within the housing; and
at least one cell disposed on the substrate.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein the substrate has a trabecular structure.
9. The system of claim 7, wherein the substrate is initially separate from the housing.
10. The system of claim 7, wherein the substrate is coated with collagen IV.
11. The system of claim 7, wherein the housing comprises an inlet for receiving a fluid and an outlet for releasing a processed fluid and wherein at least one scaffold to retain the substrate is disposed within the housing.
12. The system of claim 11, wherein at least one flow separator is disposed between the inlet and the substrate.
13. A substrate for maintaining cells, the substrate comprising a carbon material coated with niobium and with collagen IV and comprising a trabecular structure.
14. The substrate of claim 13, further comprising a cell.
15. The substrate of claim 14, wherein the cell is a renal cell.
16. A method for loading an extracorporeal therapeutic system comprising:
thawing a cryopreserved cell; and
loading the cell into the system.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the system comprises a housing and at least one hollow fiber associated with the housing, and wherein the cryopreserved cell is thawed, mixed with a biomatrix material, and loaded into the hollow fiber.
18. The method of claim 16, wherein the system comprises a housing, and wherein the cryopreserved cell, disposed on a substrate, is loaded into the housing.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein the substrate comprises a carbon material coated with niobium and, optionally, collagen IV.
20. A method for extracorporeal therapy, the method comprising:
connecting an extracorporeal therapeutic system to the peritoneum of a mammal, whereby a peritoneal fluid of the mammal circulates through the system.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the system comprises a housing and at least one hollow fiber associated with the housing.
22. The method of claim 21, wherein the system further comprises a biomatrix material disposed within the at least one hollow fiber and at least one cell disposed within the biomatrix material.
23. The method of claim 20, wherein the system comprises a housing and a substrate comprising a carbon material coated with niobium and, optionally, collagen IV.
24. The method of claim 23, wherein the system further comprises at least one cell disposed on the substrate.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of performing a review process of a request for content by a user comprising:
identifying a domain associated with the request;
approving the request when the domain is an approved domain; rejecting the request when the domain is a rejected domain;
comparing the request to a database of banned requests when the domain is not an approved or rejected domain;
denying the request when the request is found in the database of banned requests;
notifying the user of the denial of the request;
parsing the content of the request to identify keywords when the request is not found in the database of banned requests;
comparing the keywords to a dictionary of banned terms;
denying the request when a threshold number of keywords are found in the dictionary of banned terms and
assigning the request to one of a plurality of editors when the threshold number of keywords are not found in the dictionary of banned terms.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of assigning the request to one of the plurality of editors is based on characteristics associated with the request.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein a characteristic of the request is the source of the request.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein a characteristic of the request is the popularity of a provider of the content of the request.