Perspectives of Stem Cells

1. Neural Induction
Karla Loureiro Almeida, José Abreu, C. Y. Irene Yan

2. Neurogenesis: A Change of Paradigms
Luiz E. Mello, Beatriz M. Longo

3. Neurogenesis in the Olfactory Epithelium
Bettina Malnic, Lucia Armelin-Correa

4. Cell Diversification During Neural Crest Ontogeny: The Neural Crest Stem Cells
Elisabeth Dupin, Giordano W. Calloni, Nicole M. Douarin

5. Intermediate Filament Expression in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells and Early Embryos
Zhigang Xue, Vivaldo Moura-Neto, Araksya Izmiryan, Sheila Cristina Souza Martins, Jean Christophe Larcher, Denise Paulin, Zhenlin Li

6. Aneuploidy in Embryonic Stem Cells
Rafaela C. Sartore, Priscila B. Campos, Michael J. McConnell, Stevens K. Rehen

7. Retrotransposition and Neuronal Diversity
Maria C. N. Marchetto, Fred H. Gage, Alysson R. Muotri

8. Directing Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells into Distinct Neuronal Subtypes
Noelle Ammon, Nathaniel Hartman, Laura Grabel

9. Neurotransmitters as Main Players in the Neural Differentiation and Fate Determination Game
Katia K. Yuahasi, Katia N. Gomes, Marcelo Campos, Arthur A. Nery, Ariane Nunes- Alves, Cleber A. Trujillo, Henning Ulrich

10. Rhythmic Expression of Notch Signaling in Neural Progenitor Cells
Hiromi Shimojo, Toshiyuki Ohtsuka, Ryoichiro Kageyama

11. Neuron-Astroglial Interactions in Cell Fate Commitment in the Central Nervous System
Joice Stipursky, Tânia Cristina Leite Sampaio e Spohr, Luciana Ferreira Romão, Flávia Carvalho Alcantara Gomes

12. The Origin of Microglia and the Development of the Brain
Flavia R. S. Lima, Anna Carolina C. da Fonseca, Giselle P. Faria, Luiz Gustavo F. Dubois, Tércia R. Alves, Jane Faria, Vivaldo Moura Neto

13. Tissue Biology of Proliferation and Cell Death Among Retinal Progenitor Cells
Rafael Linden, Rodrigo A.P. Martins, Mariana S. Silveira, Helena L. Borges, Alfred Sholl-Franco, Lucianne Fragel-Madeira, Ana Carolina Dudenhoeffer-Carneiro

14. Potential Application of Very Small Embryonic Like (VSEL) Stem Cells in Neural Regeneration
Mariusz Z. Ratajczak, Ewa Zuba-Surma, Magda Kucia, Przemyslaw Nowacki, Bogdan Machalinski

15. Embryonic Stem Cell Transplantation for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
Asuka Morizane, Jun Takahashi

16. Functional Multipotency of Neural Stem Cells and Its Therapeutic Implications
Yang D. Teng, Serdar Kabatas, Jianxue Li, Dustin R. Wakeman, Evan Y. Snyder, Richard L. Sidman

17. Dual Roles of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Spinal Cord Injury: Cell Replacement Therapy and as a Model System to Understand Axonal Repair
Cecile King, Shyam Patel, Treena Livingston Arinzeh, Pranela Rameshwar

Keywords: Life Sciences, Stem Cells, Neurosciences, Developmental Biology, Neurochemistry, Biomedicine general