Stem Cells

1. Plant Stem Cells: Divide et Impera
Jan U. Lohmann

2. Stem Cell System of Sponge
Noriko Funayama

3. Stem Cells in Immortal Hydra
Thomas C. G. Bosch

4. Stem Cells in Planarian
Kiyokazu Agata

5. The Stem Cell System of the Basal Flatworm Macrostomum lignano
Peter Ladurner, Bernhard Egger, Katrien Mulder, Daniela Pfister, Georg Kuales, Willi Salvenmoser, Lukas Schärer

6. Regeneration and Stem Cells in Ascidians
Stefano Tiozzo, Federico D. Brown, Anthony W. Tomaso

7. In Vitro Control of Organogenesis by ActivinA Treatment of Amphibian and Mouse Stem Cells
Makoto Asashima, Akira Kurisaki, Tatsuo Michiue

8. Melanocyte Stem Cells: As an Excellent Model to Study Stem Cell Biology
Masatake Osawa, Kiyotaka Hasegawa, Mariko Moriyama, Shin-Ichi Nishikawa

9. In Vitro hESC Technology: State of the Art and Future Perspectives
William Lathrop Rust

10. Tumor Stem Cells: How to Define Them and How to Find Them?
Ibrahim Alkatout, Holger Kalthoff

Avainsanat: Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology