Genetics of Stem Cells

WNT Signaling and Cardiac Differentiation
Michael P. Flaherty, Timothy J. Kamerzell and Buddhadeb Dawn

Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Stem Cell Behavior
Guo-Chang Fan

Preconditioning Approach in Stem Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Infarcted Heart
Khawaja Husnain Haider and Muhammad Ashraf

Myocardial Regeneration: The Role of Progenitor Cells Derived From Bone Marrow and Heart
Xiaohong Wang, Arthur H. L. From and Jianyi Zhang

Induced Pluripotent Cells in Cardiovascular Biology: Epigenetics, Promises and Challenges
Raj Kishore and Eneda Hoxha

Roles of MicroRNAs and Myocardial Cell Differentiation
Tomohide Takaya, Hitoo Nishi, Takahiro Horie, Koh Ono and Koji Hasegawa

Induction of Somatic Cell Reprogramming Using the MicroRNA miR-302
Karen Kelley and Shi-Lung Lin

From Ontogenesis to Regeneration: Learning How to Instruct Adult Cardiac Progenitor Cells
Isotta Chimenti, Elvira Forte, Francesco Angelini, Alessandro Giacomello and Elisa Messina

Genetic Modification of Stem Cells for Cardiac, Diabetic and Hemophilia Transplantation Therapies
M. Ian Phillips and Yao Liang Tang

Progenitor Cell Mobilization and Recruitment: SDF-1, CXCR4, a 4-integrin, and c-kit
Min Cheng and Gangjian Qin

Reprogramming of Somatic Cells
Johnson Rajasingh

Cross-talk between the Notch signal and non-coding RNA on the Fate of Stem Cells
Yaoliang Tang, Yingjie Wang, Lijuan Chen and Neal Weintraub

Genetically Manipulated Progenitor/Stem Cells Restore Function to the Infarcted Heart via the SDF-1a/CXCR4 Signaling Pathway
Yigang Wang and Kristin Luther

Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Somatic Cells

Young-Doug Sohn, Ji Woong Han and Young-sup Yoon