Stem Cells in Reproductive Medicine

Carlos Simon MD PhD is Professor and Scientific Director of Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad (IVI), Valencia, Spain. Antonio Pellicer MD PhD is Professor and President of Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad (IVI), Valencia, Spain. Renee Reijo Pera PhD is Professor and Director of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Preface; Foreword: views from a pioneer Alan Trounson; Part I. Female Gamete: 1. Genetics of the germline formation Orkan Ilbay and Emre Seli; 2. Germ cell differentiation from pluripotent cells Jose V. Medrano, Ana M. Martínez-Arroyo, Carlos Simón and Renee A. Reijo Pera; Part II. Male Gamete: 3. The male gamete Nicolás Garrido, Rocío Rivera and Marcos Meseguer; 4. In vitro production of functional sperm from neonatal mouse testes Takehiko Ogawa; 5. Adult stem cell population in the human testis Ellen Goossens and Herman Tournaye; Part III. The Embryo/Blastomere: 6. Meiotic recombination in human oocytes Jennifer R. Gruhn, Karl W. Broman, Patricia A. Hunt and Terry J. Hassold; 7. Gene expression dynamics during human embryonic development Carlos Simón and Renee A. Reijo Pera; 8. Embryonic stem cells from blastomeres maintaining embryo viability Irina Klimanskaya; 9. Gamete generation from stem cells to avoid gamete donation and customized hESC from blastomeres as the cellular insurance for the newborn: will it ever be ethically acceptable? Heidi Mertes and Guido Pennings; Part IV. Trophoblast, Amniotic Fluid, Endometrium and Bone Marrow: 10. Amniotic fluid and placental membranes: unexpected sources of highly multipotent cells Sean Vincent Murphy and Anthony Atala; 11. Adult stem cells in the human endometrium Caroline E. Gargett, Irene Cervelló, Hong P. T. Nguyen and Carlos Simón; 12. In utero hematopoietic cell transplantation Amar Nijagal and Tippi C. MacKenzie; 13. Bone marrow stroma: a source of mesenchymal stem cells for cell therapy Agustín G. Zapata; Part V. New Developments in Stem Cell Research: 14. Dedifferentiation, transdifferentiation and reprogramming Sergio Mora and Angel Raya; 15. The metabolic framework of pluripotent stem cells and potential mechanisms of regulation Alexandra J. Harvey, Joy Rathjen and David K. Gardner; Index.