Focus on Stem Cell Research de Eric V. Greer

Focus on Stem Cell Research

Eric V. Greer

Among the many applications of stem cell research are nervous system diseases, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune diseases as well as Parkinson's disease, end-stage kidney disease, liver failure, cancer, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease. Stem cells are self-renewing, unspecialized cells that can give rise to multiple types all of specialized cells of the body. Stem cell research also involves complex ethical and legal considerations since they involve adult, fetal tissue and embryonic sources. This new book brings together leading research from throughout the world in this frontier field.

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CONTENTS: Preface; Use of Iron Oxide MR Contrast Agents for Monitoring Stem Cell Therapy (Jeff W.M. Bulte, Dara L. Kraitchman, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Tamir Ben-Hur, Hadassah University Hospital); Stem Cells for Multi-Dimensional Application in Cell Therapy (Hoan Oh, The Catholic University of Korea); Stem Cells and Differentiation Stages in the Limbo-Corneal Epithelium (J. Mario Wolosin, Xiaoling Xiong, Michael Schütte, Zeev Stegman and Andrea Tieng, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University); The Limbo-Corneal Epithelium and its Stem Cells; Principles and Applications (J. Mario Wolosin, Murat T. Budak, M. A. Murat A. Akinci, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University, Scheffer C.G. Tseng, Edgar M. Espana, The Ocular Surface Center and Ocular Surface Research and Education Foundation, Bret A. Hughes, University of Michigan, and Onder S. Alpdogan, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center); An Inducible Bioaminergic Neuronal Stem Cell to Investigate Prion Protein Function (Sophie Mouillet-Richard, Mathéa Pietri, Myriam Ermonval, Benoît Schneider, Odile Kellermann, Institut Pasteur and Jean-Marie Launay, Hôpital Lariboisière); Beyond BrdU: Basic and Clinical Implications for Analysis of Endogenous Cell Cycle Proteins (Amelia J. Eisch and Chitra D. Mandyam, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas); Signal Transduction in Hematopoietic Stem Cells (Christine Couldrey, Kevin D. Bunting, Jerome H. Holland Laboratory for the Biomedical Sciences and Kevin D. Bunting, The George Washington University Medical Center); Transduction and Post-Translational Events in Gene Therapy Targeting Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Focus on Fabry Disease (Christopher Siatska, Makoto Yoshimitsu, and Jeffrey A. Medin, University Health Network. Index.