Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 1

1. Pluripotent Human Stem Cells: An Overview
Gina Y. Chen, Jiang F. Zhong

2. Complexity of Tumor Angiogenesis and Stem Cells
Mitsuko Furuya

3. Stem Cells Like Astrocytes: Various Roles
Florian A. Siebzehnrubl, Dennis A. Steindler

4. Neural Crest Cell-Derived Tumors: An Overview
Pavel Dundr, Jiří Ehrmann

5. Therapeutic Neural Stem Cells for Brain Tumor Therapy
Khalid Shah

6. Brain Tumors: Role of Neural Cancer Stem Cells
M. Yashar S. Kalani, Maziyar A. Kalani, Victor C.K. Tse

7. Targeting Cancer Stem Cells with Phytochemicals: Inhibition of the Rat C6 Glioma Side Population by Curcumin
Dunne Fong, Marion M. Chan

8. Glioma Patients: Role of CD133 Stem Cell Antigen
Christel Herold-Mende, Benito Campos

9. Cancer Stem Cells in Brain Gliomas
Mee-Gyeung Khang, Soo-Kyung Kang

10. Primary Glioma Spheroids: Advantage of Serum-Free Medium
Charlotte Aaberg-Jessen, Karina Christensen, Bjarne Winther Kristensen

11. Tumorigenesis of Glioma-Initiating Cells: Role of Sox11
Toru Kondo

12. Glioma-Initiating Cells: Interferon Treatment
Atsushi Natsume, Masasuke Ohno, Kanako Yuki, Kazuya Motomura, Toshihiko Wakabayashi

13. Is CD133 the Appropriate Stem Cell Marker for Glioma?
Zarine Khan, Leroy Shervington, Amal Shervington

14. Cancer Stem Cells in Glioblastoma
Jinwei Hu, Xiangpeng Yuan, Qijin Xu, Hongqiang Wang, Keith L. Black, John S. Yu

15. Glioblastoma-Derived Cancer Stem Cells: Treatment with Oncolytic Viruses
Hiroaki Wakimoto

16. Cancer Stem Cells in Medulloblastoma
Xing Fan

17. Transplantation of Embryonic Stem Cells Results in Reduced Brain Lesions
Nobuo Nagai, Osamu Matsuo

18. Allogenic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Followed by Graft-Versus-Host Disease: Role of Adenosine A2A Receptor
Courtney M. Lappas

19. Umblical Cord Blood and Alpha-3 Fucosyl Transferase-Treated Haematopoietic Stem Cells for Transplantation
Philippe Taupin

20. Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cell Therapy for Myocardial Infarction
Kasper W. ter Horst

21. The Use of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Orthopedics
Christopher J. Centeno, Stephen J. Faulkner

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Cancer Research, Neuroradiology, Neurosurgery, Oncology, Pathology, Transplant Surgery