Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 8

1. Stem Cell Culture: Optimizing Amidst the Complexity
Blake W. Axelrod, Didier Wion

2. Development of Defined Culture Conditions for Expansion of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for Clinical Applications
Jessica E. Frith, Pamela Jaramillo-Ferrada, Richard J. Mills, Andrew R. Cameron, Drew M. Titmarsh, Ernst J. Wolvetang, Justin J. Cooper-White

3. Retention of Stem Cell Properties Post-expansion in Myosphere Culture
Yan Wei, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Andreas E. Albers

4. Role of Reactive Oxygen Species Formation from Oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein in Bone Marrow Stem Cells
Zhenguo Liu, Tiewei Lu, Sampath Parthasarathy, Hong Hao, Chandan K. Sen

5. The Role of Bone Marrow-Derived Progenitor Cells in Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis
Andrew C. Dudley, Erica W. Cloer, Juan M. Melero-Martin

6. Myelodysplastic Stem Cells: Gene Expression Profiling
Emiliano Fabiani, Francesco D’Alò, Giuseppe Leone, Maria Teresa Voso

7. Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transdifferentiation to Neural Cells: Role of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha
Christian Ries, Virginia Egea

8. Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) in HIV-1 Associated Bone and Lipid Toxicities
Eoin J. Cotter, Robert T. Maughan, Peter P. Doran

9. Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy: Immunomodulation and Homing Mechanisms
Hiroshi Yagi, Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, Yuko Kitagawa, Martin L. Yarmush

10. Mesenchymal Stem Cells: The Role of Endothelial Cells and the Vasculature
Sally James, Julia Marshall, Kelly Langford, Paul Genever

11. Use of Cancer/Testis Antigens in Immunotherapy: Potential Effect on Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Felipe Saldanha-Araujo, Rodrigo Haddad

12. Regulation of Self-Renewal and Pluripotency of Embryonic Stem Cells: Role of Natriuretic Peptide Receptor A
Essam M. Abdelalim, Ikuo Tooyama

13. Reprogramming and Pluripotency of Epiblast Stem Cells
Anne-Clemence Veillard, Julien Maruotti, Alice Jouneau

14. Epigenetic Modifiers and Stem Cell Differentiation
Ahmed Taher El-Serafi

15. Enrichment and Selection of Stem Cell-Derived Tissue-Specific Precursors
Harold S. Bernstein, William C. Hyun

16. Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells into Steroidogenic Cells: Role of SF-1 Regulator
Takashi Yazawa, Akihiro Umezawa, Kaoru Miyamoto

17. Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation: Role of Glycosphingolipid Structure
Chien-Huang Liao, John Yu

18. Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells into Pancreatic Endocrine Cells
Jennifer E. Bruin, Timothy J. Kieffer

19. Transformation of Vascular Endothelial Cells into Multipotent Stem-Like Cells: Role of the Activin-Like Kinase 2 Receptor
Damian Medici, Bjorn R. Olsen

20. Colon Cancer Stem Cells: A Therapeutic Target
Sanchita Roy, Adhip P. N. Majumdar

21. Treatment of Damaged Brain Following a Stroke: New Strategies
Toru Yamashita, Koji Abe

22. Parthenogenetic Activation-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Potential Applications
Yu Yin, Na Liu, David L. Keefe, Lin Liu

23. Neuroprotection for Stroke Using Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/Neural Stem Cells Grafting
Qionglan Yuan, Guotong Xu, Xiaoqing Liu

24. Derivation of Germ Cells from Pluripotent Stem Cells: Prospects and Applications
Jinlian Hua, Yue Hu, Long Wang

25. Purinergic Receptors in Stem Cell Biology
Henning Ulrich

26. Cancer Stem Cells of the Head and Neck
Xu Qian, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Andreas E. Albers

27. Functional Restoration of Salivary Glands After Radiotherapy: Roles of Wnt and Hedgehog Pathways
Fei Liu

28. Neural Stem Cell Migration: Role of Directional Cues and Electric Fields
Miguel Arocena, Jon Martin Collinson

29. ABL-Kinase Mutations in Progenitors and Stem Cells from Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients
Jean-Claude Chomel, Nathalie Sorel, Ali G. Turhan

30. Transplantation of Stem/Progenitor Cells: Potential Treatment for Erectile Dysfunction Following Radical Prostatectomy
Muammer Kendirci

31. Collection of Peripheral Blood Stem Cells from Healthy Family and Unrelated Donors for Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Isabel Leal Barbosa

32. Effect of Smoking on the Outcomes of Cancer Patients After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Shawna Ehlers, Carrie Bronars

33. Ex Vivo Expansion of Stem and Progenitor Cells Using Thrombopoietin
Zoran Ivanovic, Marija Vlaski

Keywords: Biomedicine, Molecular Medicine, Cancer Research, Medicine/Public Health, general, Science, general