Stem Cells and Human Diseases

1. Cancer Stem Cells: Biology, Perspectives and Therapeutic Implications
Brahma N. Singh, Sharmila Shankar, Rakesh K. Srivastava

2. The Perspectives of Stem Cell-Based Therapy in Neurological Diseases
Wojciech Maksymowicz, Joanna Wojtkiewicz, Hanna Kozłowska, Aleksandra Habich, Wlodek Lopaczynski

3. Stem Cell-Based Therapy for Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Brittni A. Scruggs, Xiujuan Zhang, Jeffrey M. Gimble, Bruce A. Bunnell

4.
Drosophila Germline Stem Cells
Yalan Xing, Willis X. Li

5. Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Peiman Hematti, Jaehyup Kim, Minoo Battiwalla

6. Cancer Stem Cells in Solid Tumors, Markers and Therapy
Ortiz-Sánchez Elizabeth, González-Montoya José Luis, Langley Elizabeth, García-Carrancá Alejandro

7. Cancer Stem Cells: Paradigm Shifting or Perishing Concept?
Senthil K. Pazhanisamy, Keith Syson Chan

8. Genomics of Prostate Cancer
Kern Rei Chng, Shin Chet Chuah, Edwin Cheung

9. Ischemia, Reactive Radicals, Redox Signaling and Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Suman Kanji, Vincent J. Pompili, Hiranmoy Das

10. Cancer Stem Cell Models and Role in Drug Discovery
Rohit Duggal, Boris Minev, Angelo Vescovi, Aladar Szalay

11. Origins of Metastasis-Initiating Cells
Sara M. Nolte, Sheila K. Singh

12. The Reduction of Callus Formation During Bone Regeneration by BMP-2 and Human Adipose Derived Stem Cells
Claudia Keibl, Martijn Griensven

13. Stem Cells and Leukemia
Vincenzo Giambra, Christopher R. Jenkins

14. The Role of Adult Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Growth Factors and Scaffolds in the Repair of Cartilage and Bone
Antal Salamon, Erzsébet Toldy

15. Worth the Weight: Adipose Stem Cells in Human Disease
Saleh Heneidi, Gregorio Chazenbalk

16. Neural Crest and Hirschsprung’s Disease
Kim Hei-Man Chow, Paul Kwong-Hang Tam, Elly Sau-Wai Ngan

17. Common Denominators of Self-renewal and Malignancy in Neural Stem Cells and Glioma
Grzegorz Wicher, Karin Holmqvist, Karin Forsberg-Nilsson

18. Stem-Like Cells from Brain Tumours or Vice Versa?
Sara G. M. Piccirillo

19. Translating Mammary Stem Cell and Cancer Stem Cell Biology to the Clinics
Rajneesh Pathania, Vadivel Ganapathy, Muthusamy Thangaraju

20. Breast Cancer Stem Cells
Shane R. Stecklein, Roy A. Jensen

21. Translin/TRAX Deficiency Affects Mesenchymal Differentiation Programs and Induces Bone Marrow Failure
Reiko Ishida, Katsunori Aoki, Kazuhiko Nakahara, Yuko Fukuda, Momoko Ohori, Yumi Saito, Kimihiko Kano, Junichiro Matsuda, Shigetaka Asano, Richard T. Maziarz, Masataka Kasai

22. Cancer Therapies and Stem Cells
Hiromichi Kimura

23. Cancer Stem Cells and Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas
Shi-Long Lu

24. The Biology of Lung Cancer Stem Cells
Sandeep Singh, Srikumar P. Chellappan

25. Stem Cell Characters in Primary and Metastatic Tumour Establishment
Maria Tsekrekou, Dimitris Mavroudis, Dimitris Kafetzopoulos, Despoina Vassou

26. Plasticity of Cancer Stem Cells
Zhizhong Li

27. Cross Talks Among Notch, Wnt, and Hedgehog Signaling Pathways Regulate Stem Cell Characteristics
Su-Ni Tang, Sharmila Shankar, Rakesh K. Srivastava

28. Global OMICs Profiling and Functional Analysis of CD44+/CD24− Stem-Like Cells in Normal Human Breast Tissue and Breast Cancer
Marina Bessarabova, Kornelia Polyak, Yuri Nikolsky

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