Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Stem Cells in Clinic and Research

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Ali Gholamrezanezhad
Ali Gholamrezanezhad

Johns Hopkins University,
United States of America

Published23 August 2011

Doi10.5772/740

ISBN978-953-307-797-0

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-6455-5

Copyright year2011

Number of pages818

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. Stem Cells: General Features and Characteristics

By Hongxiang Hui, Yongming Tang, Min Hu and Xiaoning Zhao

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2. Human Cord Blood-Derived Stem Cells in Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine

By Cornel Iancu, Ioana Ilie, Lucian Mocan, Carmen Georgescu, Razvan Ilie, Ileana Duncea, Teodora Mocan, Dana Iancu, and Florin Zaharie

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4. How do Mesenchymal Stem Cells Repair?

By Patricia Semedo, Marina Burgos-Silva, Cassiano Donizetti-Oliveira and Niels Olsen Saraiva Camara

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5. Immunogenicity and Immune-Modulating Properties of Human Stem Cells

By Jan Nehlin, Adiba Isa and Torben Barington

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6. Stem Cell Culture Collection - Promising Strategy for Animal Genetic Resource Preservation

By Weijun Guan, Xiangchen Li, Dapeng Jin, Xiaohong He, Yabin Pu, Qianjun Zhao, Taofeng Lu, Chunyu Bai, Shen Wu, Xiaohua Su and Yuehui Ma

3,899
7. The Role of SOX2 in Maintaining Pluripotency and Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

By Keiko Adachi, Hirofumi Suemori, Norio Nakatsuji and Eihachiro Kawase

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8. The Role of MicroRNAs in Regulating Cancer Stem Cells

By Musaffe Tuna and Christopher I. Amos

3,285
9. Are We There Yet? A Story About Cardiac Stem Cells

By Shizuka Uchida, Piera De Gaspari and Thomas Braun

2,855
11. Randomized Clinical Trials in Stem Cell Therapy for the Heart - Old and New Types of Cells for Cardiovascular Repair

By Ricardo Sanz-Ruiz, Adolfo Villa Arranz, Enrique Gutiérrez Ibañes, María Eugenia Fernández Santos, Pedro Luis Sánchez Fernández and Francisco Fernández-Avilés

3,566
12. Autologous Stem Cells for Cardiac Repair: New Insights on Clinical Trial Safety and Best Cell Source

By Nicolas Noiseux, Louis Mathieu Stevens, Jessica Forcillo and Samer Mansour

2,562
14. Myogenic Potential of Murine Embryonic Stem Cells in the Dmdmdx Mouse Model for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

By Danielle Ayub-Guerrieri, Poliana C. M. Martins-Machado, Paula C.G. Onofre-Oliveira, Lygia V. Pereira, Camila F. Almeida, Vanessa F. Lopes and Mariz Vainzof

2,403
15. Stem Cell in Neurological Disorders

By Nirmeen Kishk and Noha Abokrysha

4,251
16. Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease: Failure or Success?

By Magdalena Guerra-Crespo, Alberto K. De la Herrán-Arita, Arturo Hernández-Cruz, José Bargas and René Drucker-Colín

3,000
17. Stem Cell Therapy for Neuromuscular Diseases

By Mirella Meregalli, Andrea Farini and Yvan Torrente

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19. Stem Cell Therapy for Patients with Chronic Liver Disease

By Reebye, V; Levičar, N and Habib, N.

4,037
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20. Pancreatic Stem Cells: Unresolved Business

By Fang-Xu Jiang and Grant Morahan

4,192
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21. Cell Sources for Treating Diabetes

By Subhshri Sahu, Mugdha V. Joglekar, Sundy N. Y. Yang and Anandwardhan A. Hardikar

2,326
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23. Topical Stem and Progenitor Cell Therapy for Diabetic Foot Ulcers

By Aonghus O’Loughlin and Timothy O’Brien

5,436
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24. Regeneration of the Kidney - Viewed from ES Cell

By Hirotsugu Iwatani and Enyu Imai

2,265
25. Periodontal Ligament Stem Cells

By Hidefumi Maeda, Naohisa Wada, Shinsuke Fujii, Atsushi Tomokiyo and Akifumi Akamine

6,907
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26. Clinical Stem Cell Imaging and In vivo Tracking

By Sahar Mirpour and Ali Gholamrezanezhad

4,085
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28. Synchrotron Radiation and Nanotechnology for Stem Cell Research

By Alessandra Giuliani, Fabrizio Fiori, Adrian Manescu, Vladimir S. Komlev, Chiara Renghini and Franco Rustichelli

2,960
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29. Spontaneous Generation of Neurospheres from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells

By Roberto Di Maio, Kommu Naga Mohan, Brianna Heath and Leonardo D’Aiuto

4,642
32. Raman Spectroscopy for Noninvasive Monitoring of Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells Viability Transitions

By P.Chen, F.Zhang, L.Lin, H.Bai, L.Zhang, G.Q.Tang, H.Fang, G.G.Mu, W. Gong, Z. P. Liu, Z. B. Han, H. Zhao and Z. C. Han

3,375
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33. Novel Platforms to Create Labeled Stem Cells

By Andrew Fontes, Rene Quintanilla and Uma Lakshmipathy

3,010

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