Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 7

Part I. Regenerative Medicine

1. Mesenchymal Stem Cell Expansion for Therapeutic Application
Teng Ma

2. Role of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine
Wenyan Leong, Dong-An Wang

3. Sulforaphane as New Therapeutic Agent for Targeting of Cancer Stem Cells with Focus to Prostate and Pancreatic Cancer
Ingrid Herr, Vanessa Rausch

4. Technology Platforms for Heart Regenerative Therapy Using Pluripotent Stem Cells
Fumiyuki Hattori

5. Myocardial Regeneration of Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells: Differentiation, Paracrine, Fusion Mechanisms
Xiaowen Bai, Zeljko J. Bosnjak

6. Mobilization of Pluripotent Stem Cells in Patients with Myocardial Ischemia: From the Bench to Bedside
Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Ewa K. Zuba-Surma, Mariusz Z. Ratajczak

7. Mammary Regeneration Using Embryonic Stem Cell Engraftment
Hai-Jun Huang, Qi-Shuang Gao, Yun-Guo Qian, Jie Li

8. Recovery of the Bone Marrow in Lethally Irradiated Host: Role of Hyper-Activated Stem Cell Factor Receptor
Soumya Pati, Asok Mukhopadhyay

9. Therapeutic Potential of Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells in Treatment of Genetic Diseases of the Liver
Prakash Baligar, Neelam Yadav, Asok Mukhopadhyay

10. Propagation of Human Bone Marrow Stem Cells for Craniofacial Applications
Alejandro Pelaez-Vargas, Daniel Gallego-Perez, David F. Gomez, Maria H. Fernandes, Derek J. Hansford, Fernando J. Monteiro

11. Maintenance of Pluripotency in Mouse Stem Cells: Use of Hyaluronan in the Long-Term Culture
Priscila Ramos-Ibeas, Eva Pericuesta, Alberto Miranda, Raúl Fernández-González, Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán, Miguel Ángel Ramírez

12. Initiation of Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Muscle Stem/Progenitor Cells as Targets
David Mater, Jordan M. Blum, David G. Kirsch

13. Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Complex Players in Lung Repair and Injury
Mauricio Rojas, Naveen Gupta, Susan M. Majka

Part II. Tissue Engineering

14. Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Mesodermal Progenitors for Bone Engineering
Giuseppe Maria Peppo, Camilla Karlsson

15. The Role of Chondrogenic Factors in Differentiation of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells to the Cartilage Lineage
Emily M. Florine, Alan J. Grodzinsky

16. Chondrogenic Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Effect of Electromagnetic Fields
Susanne Mayer-Wagner, Alice Paßberger, Volkmar Jansson, Peter E. Müller

17. Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells into Retinal Pigment Epithelium
Heli Skottman

18. Stem Cells and Stress Injury: Role of Arginine Decarboxylase
Bokara Kiran Kumar, Jong Eun Lee

Part III. Transplantation

19. Treatment of Cerebellar Ataxias: Transplantation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Slaven Erceg, Miodrag Stojkovic

20. A New Concept of Stem Cell Disorders, and the Rationale for Transplantation of Normal Stem Cells
Susumu Ikehara

21. Manipulation, Guidance and Tracking of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine and Transplantation: The Role of Magnetic Nanoparticles
Orazio Vittorio, Marco Cecchini, Paolo Parchi, Michele Lisanti

Part IV. Neural Applications

22. Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells into Neural Lineage Cells
Yang Zhou, Ying Jin

23. Use of Recombinant Viruses to Manipulate Neural Stem Cell Gene Expression in the Mouse Brain
Konstantin Khodosevich

24. Accelerated Neural Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using Chlorate Treatment
Shoko Nishihara

25. Application of Epiblast/Germ Line-Derived Very Small Embryonic-Like Stem Cells for Neurogenesis
Wojtek Marlicz, Claudiana Lameu, Przemyslaw Nowacki, Magda Kucia, Mariusz Z. Ratajczak

26. Erratum
Heli Skottman

Keywords: Biomedicine, Cancer Research, Oncology, Stem Cells, Neurobiology, Blood Transfusion Medicine, Biomedicine general