Table of Contents: Preface
Expert Commentary A
Current Problems in Stem Cell Therapy: Are we ready for Human Transplantation?
(Fernando Cobo, Stem Cell Bank of Andalucia, Univ. Hospital Virgen De Las Nieves, Granada, Spain)
Chapter I.- Stem Cells, Progenitor Cells and Vascular Diseases;
pp. 5-63
(Qingzhong Xiao, Cardiovascular Division, King's College London, Univ. of London, London, UK, Marjan Jahangiri, Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, St. George's Univ. of London, UK, Qingbo Xu, Cardiovascular Division, King's College London, Univ. of London, London, UK)
Chapter II.- GATA Transcription Factors and T Cell Development from Hematopoietic Stem Cells; pp. 65-106
(Kam-Wing Ling, Jan Piet van Hamburg, Rudi W. Hendriks, Dept. of Immunology, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Chapter III.- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Shp-2 in Cytokine Signalings and Stem Cell Regulations; pp. 107-134
(Gang-Ming Zou, Dept. of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD)
Chapter IV.- Stem Cells for Neural Tissue Engineering; pp. 135-160
(Sherri S. Schultz, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York)
Chapter V.- Fibrocytes, Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Monocytes: Who is who in Circulating Stem Cells?; pp. 161-186
(Pablo Gomez-Ochoa, Dept. of Animal Pathology, Veterinary Faculty Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain)
Chapter VI.- Neural Stem Cell Niche-dependency: A Theoretical Model of spatially restricted responses to the activation of multiple Receptors; pp. 187-201
(Lia Scotti Campos, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK)
Chapter VII.- Potential Application of Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Wharton's Jelly for the treatment of Parkinsonism; pp. 203-227
(Yu-Show Fu, Dept. of Anatomy, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, Yun-Chih Cheng, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Univ., Taipei, Taiwan)
Chapter VIII.- Human Oogenesis and Follicular Renewal frmo Ovarian Somatic Stem Cells; pp. 229-272
(Antonin Bukovsky, Laboratory of Development, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Univ. of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, Tennessee)
Chapter IX.- Gastric Stem Cells; pp. 273-293
(Yoshikiyo Akasaka, Toshiharu Ishii, Dept. of Pathology, School of Medicine, Toho Univ., Tokyo, Japan)
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