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- Editors:
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M.A. Hayat
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, Kean University, Room 213, Library building, Union, USA
- Treatment of cancer patients
- Methods for tissue engineering
- Role of growth promoting factors in cancer
- Treatment of injuries using cell therapy
- Extensively illustrated with color figures
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxiii
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Embryonic Stem Cells
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- Prasad Pethe, Deepa Bhartiya
Pages 3-9
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- Jessica Nolte, D. V. Krishna Pantakani, Hassan Dihazi, Ulrich Zechner
Pages 21-34
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- Jeoung Eun Lee, Myung Seo Kang, Dong Ryul Lee
Pages 35-45
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- Amranul Haque, Toshihiro Akaike
Pages 57-69
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- Yee-Ki Lee, Kwong-Man Ng, Wing-Hon Lai, Yau-Chi Chan, Yee-Man Lau, Hung-Fat Tse et al.
Pages 71-78
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- Masato Nakagawa, Shinya Yamanaka
Pages 79-85
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- Masha Idelson, Benjamin Reubinoff
Pages 87-99
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- Harry Moore, Ramya Udayashankar
Pages 101-109
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells
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Front Matter
Pages 111-111
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- Mukesh Kumar Gupta, Hoon Taek Lee
Pages 113-129
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- Sarika Saraswati, Dikshya Bastakoty, Pampee P. Young
Pages 131-141
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- Markus Neubauer, Heike Wegmeyer, Ralf Huss
Pages 143-160
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- Aaron Liew, Timothy O’Brien
Pages 161-175
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- Manuel RamÃrez, Javier GarcÃa Castro
Pages 177-183
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- Robert F. Moore, Marwan Mounayar, Reza Abdi
Pages 197-203
About this book
The difference among pluripotent stem cells, multipotent stem cells, and unipotent stem cells is pointed out. Vast therapeutic applications of the following specific stem cells in disease and tissue injury are discussed: human embryonic stem cells, human mesenchymal stem cells, germ cell-derived pluripotent stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, human umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells, breast tumor stem cells,and hematopoietic stem cells. Because of the potential of human embryonic stem cells to produce unlimited quantities of any human cell type, considerable focus is placed on their therapeutic potential. Because of their pluripotency, these cells have been used in various applications such as tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, pharmacological and toxicological studies, and fundamental studies of cell differentiation. The formation of embryoid bodies, which are three-dimensional aggregates of embryonic stem cells, is explained as this is the first step in cell differentiation. Such embryoid body culture has been widely used as a trigger for the in vitro differentiation of embryonic stem cells. The basic capacity of self-renewal of human embryogenic stem cells is explained. The role of TGF-beta in the propagation of human embryonic stem cells is discussed. The differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into neurons, hepatocytes, cardiomyocytes, and retinal cells is fully explained. Donor policies for hematopoietic stem cells are also explained.
Editors and Affiliations
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, Kean University, Room 213, Library building, Union, USA
M.A. Hayat