Adult Stem Cell Therapies: Alternatives to Plasticity (eBook)

Mariusz Z. Ratajczak, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sci. d.h.c is the Henry M. and Stella M. Hoenig Endowed Chair in Cancer Biology and the Director of the Stem Cell Institute at the University of Louisville's James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Louisville, USA. Dr. Ratajczak earned his M.D. at the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland, and his D.Sci. and Ph.D. in hematopoietic transplantation at the Center for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Warsaw, Poland. He completed fellowships at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. Dr. Ratajczak  is an internationally known specialist in the field of adult stem cell biology. He is section editor of Leukemia and Journal of Blood Cancer, and he is a member of the editorial board for Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Stem Cells, and Stem Cells and Reports. He also has published numerous books and more than 400 peer-reviewed publications and is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide.

.- 1 Regenerative Medicine and the Search for Pluripotent/Multipotent Stem Cells.- Mariusz Z. Ratajczak  .- 2 Novel Therapeutic Approaches in Regenerative Medicine: Adult Tissue-Derived Very Small Embryonic like Stem Cells and Harnessing Paracrine Signals of Adult Stem Cells.- Magda Kucia, Malwina Suszynska, Janina Ratajczak & Mariusz Z. Ratajczak .- 3 Cord Blood Stem Cells.- Marta Adamiak, Zbigniew Madeja and Ewa K. Zuba-Surma .- 4 Human CD34-negative Hematopoietic Stem Cells.- Yoshiaki Sonoda .- 5 Cell Therapies in Cardiology.- Wojciech Wojakowski, Agata Czekaj and Michał Tendera .- 6 Mechanisms Regulating Trafficking of Stem Cells in Ischemic Heart Disease.- Yuri Klyachkin, Ahmed Abdel-Latif .- 7 Stem Cell Therapies in Neurology.- Naoki Tajiri, Meaghan Staples, Sandra Acosta, Mibel Pabon, Travis Dailey, Yuji Kaneko, Cesar V. Borlongan .- 8 Stem Cell Compartment in Acute Psychotic Syndromes.- Jolanta Kucharska-Mazur, Jerzy Samochowiec .- 9 Skin Regeneration and Circulating Stem Cells.- Julia Borowczyk, Justyna Drukała .- 10 Stem Cell Therapies in Neonatology.- Bogusław Machaliński .- 11 Pluripotent Very Small Embryonic-like Stem Cells in Adult Mammalian Gonads.- Deepa Bhartiya, Seema Parte, Hiren Patel, Sandhya Anand, Kalpana Sriraman, Pranesh Gunjal .- 12 Molecular Signature of Very Small Embryonic Like Stem Cells.- Hyunsook Kang, Jisun Lim, Jinbeom Heo, Jaeho Jeong, YongHwan Kim, Dong-Myung Shin .- 13 Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Tissue/Organ Regeneration.- Maria Chiara Deregibus, Alessandra Iavello, Ciro Tetta, Giovanni Camussi .- 14 Extracellular Vesicles and Tissue Organ Regeneration.- P. Quesenberry, J. Aliotta, M. Dooner, D. Chatterjee, B. Ramratnam, L. Goldberg, M. Del Tatto, M. Pereira, A. Sorokina, S. Wen .- 15 Stem Cells in Infection and Sepsis.- Tomasz Skirecki, Grażyna Hoser, Jerzy Kawiak.