Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 8 (eBook)

Preface.
I. Stem cell culture.
1Stem cell culture: optimizing amidst the complexity
2Development of defined culture conditions for expansion of human mesenchymal stromal cells for clinical applications.
3Retention of stem cell properties post-expansion in myosphere culture
II. Bone marrow stem cells.
4Role of reactive oxygen species formation form oxidized low density lipoprotein in bone marrow stem cells
5The role of bone marrow-derived progenitor cells in tumor growth and angiogenesis
6Myelodysplastic stem cells: gene expression profiling
III. Mesenchymal stem cells

7Human mesenchymal stem cell transdifferentiation to neural cells: role of tumor necrosis factor alpha
8Role of mesenchymal stem cells (msc) in hiv-1 associated bone and lipid toxicities
9Mesenchymal stem cell therapy: immunomodulation and homing mechanisms
10Mesenchymal stem cells: the role of endothelial cells and the vasculature
11Use of cancer/testis antigens in immunotherapy: potential effect on mesenchymal stem cells
IV. Reprogramming and differentiation of stem cells
12Regulation of self-renewal and pluripotency of embryonic stem cells: role of natriuretic peptide receptor a
13Reprogramming and pluripotency of epiblast stem cells
14Epigenetic modifiers and stem cell differentiation
15Enrichment and selection of stem cell-derived tissue-specific precursors
16Differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into steroidogenic cells: role of sf-1 regulator
17Human embryonic stem cell differentiation: role of glycosphingolipid structure
18Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into pancreatic endocrine cells
19Transformation of vascular endothelial cells into multipotent stem-like cells: role of the activin-like kinase 2 receptor
V. Treatment
20Colon cancer stem cells: a therapeutic target
21Treatment of damaged brain following a stroke: new strategies
22Parthenogenetic activation-induced pluripotent stem cells and potential applications
23Neuroprotection for stroke using glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor/neural stem cells grafting
24Derivation of germ cells from pluripotent stem cells: prospects and applications
25Purinergic receptors in stem cell biology
26Cancer stem cells of the head and neck
27Functional restoration of salivary glands after radiotherapy: roles of wnt and hedgehog pathways
28Neural stem cell migration: role of directional cues and electric fields
29Abl-kinase mutations in progenitors and stem cells from chronic myeloid leukemia patients

VI. Transplantation
30Treatment for erectile dysfunction after radical prostatectomy: transplantation of stem/progenitor cells
31Collection of peripheral blood stem cells from healthy family and unrelated donors for haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
32Effects of smoking on the outcomes of cancer patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
33Ex vivo expansion of stem and progenitor cells using thrombopoietin