Adult and embryonic stem cells

✍ Scribed by Gülsen Ökten (auth.), Kursad Turksen (eds.)

• Publisher: Humana Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: Stem cell biology and regenerative medicine
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume will cover a series of reviews on stem cells including adult and embryonic stem cells. Speakers were invited to present these talks during the Stem Cell Symposia in fall of 2010, in Samsun, Turkey. Unique aspect of this volume is that it brings a multidisciplinary aspect of stem cells extracted from a symposium.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Impressions from the International Stem Cell Symposium....Pages 1-10
Searching for In Vivo Traces of Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Their Ancestors....Pages 11-24
Isolation and Identification of Mesenchymal Stem Cells....Pages 25-32
Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation....Pages 33-47
Immunoregulatory Functions of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells....Pages 49-58
Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Possibilities of New Treatment Options....Pages 59-67
Tissue Engineering Based on the Importance of Collaboration Between Clinicians and Basic Scientists Regarding Mesenchymal Stromal Cells....Pages 69-80
Synchroton Radiation and Nanotechnology for Stem Cell Researchers....Pages 81-102
Controversies in Corneal Epithelial Stem Cell Biology....Pages 103-117
Type 1 Diabetes and Stem Cells: A New Approach....Pages 119-137
Successful Scale-Up and Quality Assessments of Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Cell Therapy: Challenges and Overview....Pages 139-158
Human Embryonic Stem Cells from Laboratory and Clinical Perspectives....Pages 159-171
Clinical and Laboratory Aspects of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Derivation of Affected Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines....Pages 173-198
New Treatment Modalities by Disease-Specific and Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells....Pages 199-225
Cancer Stem Cells: Current Concepts and Therapeutic Implications....Pages 227-235
Problems to Be Solved in Molecular Oncology....Pages 237-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-260

✦ Subjects

Stem Cells; Cell Biology; Biotechnology