Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine

1. Introduction to Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Krishnarao Appasani, Raghu K. Appasani

2. Embryonic Stem Cells: Discovery, Development, and Current Trends
Elias Theodorou, Michael Snyder

3.
Bmi1 in Self-Renewal and Homeostasis of Pancreas
Eugenio Sangiorgi, Mario Capecchi

4. Cancer Stem Cells in Solid Tumors
Elodie Potet, Lauren Cameron, Nagy A. Habib, Natasa Levicar

5. Adipose-Derived Stem Cells and Skeletal Muscle Repair
Claude A. Dechesne, Didier F. Pisani, Sébastien Goudenege, Christian Dani

6. Regeneration of Sensory Cells of Adult Mammalian Inner Ear
Dongguang Wei, Ebenezer N. Yamoah

7. Stem Cells and Their Use in Skeletal Tissue Repair
Laura Baumgartner, Vuk Savkovic, Susanne Trettner, Colette Martin, Nicole I. zur Nieden

8. Epigenetic Identity in Cancer Stem Cells
Maria Ouzounova, Hector Hernandez-Vargas, Zdenko Herceg

9. Function of MicroRNA-145 in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Pluripotency
Na Xu, Kenneth S. Kosik

10. Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Liver Regeneration
Tom K. Kuo, Yueh-Hsin Ping, Oscar K. Lee

11. The Role of Time-Lapse Microscopy in Stem Cell Research and Therapy
Kevin E. Loewke, Renee A. Reijo Pera

12. Therapeutic Applications of Mesenchymal Stem/Multipotent Stromal Cells
Weian Zhao, Debanjan Sarkar, James Ankrum, Sean Hall, Weili Loh, Wei Suong Teo, Jeffrey M. Karp

13. Gastrointestinal Stem Cells
N. Parveen, Aleem A. Khan, M. Aejaz Habeeb, C. M. Habibullah

14. Lung Epithelial Stem Cells
Magnus Karl Magnusson, Olafur Baldursson, Thorarinn Gudjonsson

15. Placental-Derived Stem Cells: Potential Clinical Applications
Sean Murphy, Euan Wallace, Graham Jenkin

16. Bone Marrow Cell Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Clinical Trial Review
Franca S. Angeli, Yerem Yeghiazarians

17. Stem Cell Transplantation to the Heart
Michael J. Mann

18. Adult Neural Progenitor Cells and Cell Replacement Therapy for Huntington Disease
Bronwen Connor

19. Migration of Transplanted Neural Stem Cells in Experimental Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Nathaniel W. Hartman, Laura B. Grabel, Janice R. Naegele

20. Prospects for Neural Stem Cell Therapy of Alzheimer Disease
Thorsten Gorba, Sarah Harper, P. Joseph Mee

21. Nuclear Transfer Embryonic Stem Cells as a New Tool for Basic Biology
Sayaka Wakayama, Eiji Mizutani, Teruhiko Wakayama

22. Pluripotent Stem Cells in Reproductive Medicine: Formation of the Human Germ Line in Vitro

Sofia Gkountela, Anne Lindgren, Amander T. Clark

23. Prospects for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetes
Robert J. Drummond, James A. Ross, P. Joseph Mee

24. Keratinocyte-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: From Hair to Where?
Trond Aasen, Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte

25. Generation and Characterization of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Pig
Toshihiko Ezashi, Bhanu Prakash V. L. Telugu, R. Michael Roberts

26. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: On the Road Toward Clinical Applications
Fanyi Zeng, Qi Zhou

27. Direct Reprogramming of Human Neural Stem Cells by the Single Transcription Factor OCT4
Jeong Beom Kim, Holm Zaehres, Hans R. Schöler

28. Stem Cells and Biomaterials: The Tissue Engineering Approach
Stefania Antonini, Angelo Vescovi, Fabrizio Gelain

29. Microtechnology for Stem Cell Culture
Elena Serena, Elisa Cimetta, Camilla Luni, Nicola Elvassore

30. Using Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies for Stem Cell Biology
Kshitiz Gupta, Deok-Ho Kim, David Ellison, Christopher Smith, Andre Levchenko

31. The Development of Small Molecules and Growth Supplements to Control the Differentiation of Stem Cells and the Formation of Neural Tissues
Victoria B. Christie, Daniel J. Maltman, Andy Whiting, Todd B. Marder, Stefan A. Przyborski

32. Long-Term Propagation of Neural Stem Cells: Focus on Three-Dimensional Culture Systems and Mitogenic Factors
Rikke K. Andersen, Jens Zimmer, Morten Meyer

33. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine in Urology
Anthony Atala

34. Muscle-Derived Stem Cells: A Model for Stem Cell Therapy in Regenerative Medicine
Burhan Gharaibeh, Lauren Drowley, Johnny Huard

35. Regenerative Strategies for Cardiac Disease
Xiaojing Huang, James Oh, Sean M. Wu

36. Collecting, Processing, Banking, and Using Cord Blood Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine
David T. Harris

Keywords: Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Biophysics and Biological Physics, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Biotechnology