Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 11

Part I. Embryonic Stem Cells

1. Maintenance of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Identity and Inhibition of Extraembryonic Differentiation: Role of CNOT1, CNOT2 and CNOT3
Raluca Dumitru, Guang Hu

2. Investigating the Role of the Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal Gene NANOG in Neoplastic Processes
Collene R. Jeter

3. Derivation and Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Under Xeno-Free, Defined Conditions
Guoliang Meng, Derrick Rancourt

4. Self-Renewal of Naïve State Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells: Role of LacdiNAc in LIF/STAT3 Signaling
Shoko Nishihara

5. Cancer Gene Therapy Potential of Neural Stem Cells Derived from Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Jing Yang, Sal Lee Goh, Shu Wang

Part II. Cancer Stem Cells

6. The Role of Cancer Stem(–Like) Cells and Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Spreading Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Miriam Zimmermann, Xu Qian, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Andreas E. Albers

7. Glioma Propagating Cells Show Enhanced Chemoresistance and Radioresistance (an Update)
Lynnette Wei Hsien Koh, Tan Boon Toh, Carol Tang, Beng Ti Ang

8. Chemical Genomic Approaches to Eradicate Leukemia Stem Cells
Siddhartha Sen, Monica L. Guzman, Duane C. Hassane

9. Isolation of Cancer Stem Cells Showing Drug Resistance in the Human Epithelia Ovarian Cancer
Zhangli Dong, Dongmei Lai

10. Cancer Stem Cells in Pediatric Sarcomas
Sampoorna Satheesha, Beat W. Schäfer

11. Cancer Stem Cells Derived from Mouse Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Hiroshi Murakami, Akifumi Mizutani, Chen Ling, Tomonari Kasai, Takayuki Kudoh, Li Fu, Masaharu Seno

12. Stemness Regulation of Somatic Cancer Cells
Zhenhe Suo, Jian-Guo Wen, Jahn M. Nesland

13. Induced Differentiation of Brain Tumour Stem Cells
Verena Kuchler, Euan S. Polson, Anjana Patel, Heiko Wurdak

14. Role of Microenvironment in Regulating Stem Cell and Tumor Initiating Cancer Cell Behavior and Its Potential Therapeutic Implications
Ana Krtolica

15. Identification of Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells: Molecular Pathways
Arokia Priyanka Vaz, Parthasarathy Seshacharyulu, Surinder K. Batra, Moorthy P. Ponnusamy

Part III. Hematopoietic Stem Cells

16. Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Bone Regeneration
Reeva Aggarwal, Vincent J. Pompili, Hiranmoy Das

17. Children with Solid Tumors: Identification of Hematopoietic and Endothelial Progenitor Cells as Biomarkers
Julie Mund, Jamie Case

18. Pediatric Neuroblastoma: Combined Treatment with Monoclonal Antibody and Cytokines Preceded by Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Mehmet Fevzi Özkaynak

19. Autologous and Allogeneic Hematopoieitic Cell Transplantation: Risk of Second Malignancies
Bryan Trottier, Linda J. Burns

Part IV. Neural Stem Cells

20. Treatment of Injured Spinal Cord: Engraftment of Neural Stem Cells
Martin M. Mortazavi, Nimer Adeeb, Aman Deep, R. Shane Tubbs

21. Spinal Cord Injury Engineering Using Neural Stem Cells
Martin M. Mortazavi, Nimer Adeeb, Aman Deep, R. Shane Tubbs

22. Endogenous Regenerative Potential of Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells of the Newborn Brain (An Overview)
Pedro M. Pimentel-Coelho, Rosalia Mendez-Otero

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