Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine : From Molecular Embryology to Tissue Engineering - Appasani, Krishnarao; Appasani, Raghu K.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2011)
Section 1: Stem Cell Biology -- Introduction to Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine -- Embryonic Stem Cells: Discovery, Development, and Current Trends -- Bmi1 in self-renewal and homeostasis of pancreas -- Cancer Stem Cells in Solid Tumors -- Adipose-derived stem cells and skeletal muscle repair -- Regeneration of sensory cells of adult mammalian inner ear -- Stem Cells and Their Use in Skeletal Tissue Repair -- Section 2: Epigenetic and microRNA Regulation in Stem Cells -- Epigenetic identity in cancer stem cells -- Function of MicroRNA-145 in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Pluripotency -- Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Liver Regeneration -- Section 3: Stem Cells for Therapeutic Applications -- The Role of Time-Lapse Microscopy in Stem Cell Research and Therapy -- Therapeutic applications of mesenchymal stem/multipotent stromal cells -- Gastrointestinal stem cells -- Lung epithelial stem cells -- Placental Derived Stem Cells, Potential Clinical Applications -- Bone Marrow Cell Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Clinical Trial Review -- Stem cell Transplantation to the Heart -- Adult Neural Progenitor Cells and Cell Replacement Therapy for Huntington's Disease -- Migration of Transplanted Neural Stem Cells in Experimental Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases -- Prospects for neural stem cell therapy of Alzheimer's disease -- Section 4: Nuclear Reprogramming and induced Pluripotent Stem Cells -- Nuclear transfer ES cells as a new tool for basic biology -- Pluripotent stem cells in reproductive medicine: Formation of the human germ line in vitro -- Prospects for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetes -- Keratinocyte induced pluripotent stem cells: from hair to where? -- Generation and Characterization of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Pig -- Induced pluripotent stem cells, on the road toward clinical applications -- Direct reprogramming of human neural stem cells by the single transcription factor Oct 4 -- Section 5: Tissue Engineering -- Stem cells and biomaterials: the tissue engineering approach -- Micro-technology for stem cell culture -- Using Lab-on-A-Chip Technologies for Stem cell Biology -- The Development of Small Molecules and Growth Supplements to Control the Differentiation of Stem Cells and the Formation of Neural Tissues -- Long-term propagation of neural stem cells: Focus on 3D culture systems and mitogenic factors -- Section 6: Regenerative Medicine -- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine in Urology -- Muscle derived stem cells: a model for stem cell therapy in regenerative medicine -- Regenerative strategies for cardiac disease -- Collecting, Processing, Banking and Use of Cord Blood Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine.
Keywords: Cell biology; Developmental biology; Biophysics; Biological physics; Animal genetics; Pharmacology; Biotechnology; Cell Biology; Developmental Biology; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Biotechnology