Stem cells, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine / edited by David Warburton. -- New Jersey : World Scientific, c2015. – (61.268/S824) |
Contents
Contents
Introduction: Developmental Biology, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells: The Hope Machine is Justified David Warburton
Foreword: Towards Broader Approaches to Stem Cell Signaling and Therapeutics xiii
Chapter 1 Pluripotent Stem Cells from the Early Embryo
Chapter 2 The First Cell Fate Decision During Mammalian Development 25
Chapter 3 Asymmetric Cell Divisions of Stem/Progenitor Cells
Chapter 4 Microenvironmental Modulation of Stem Cell Differentiation with Focus on the Lung
Chapter 5 Smart Matrices for Distal Lung Tissue Engineering
Chapter 6 Skin Stem Cells and Their Roles in Skin Regeneration and Disorders
Chapter 7 Stem Cell Recruitment and Impact in Skin Repair and Regeneration
Chapter 8 Epigenetic and Environmental Regulation of Skin Appendage Regeneration
Chapter 9 Cranial Neural Crest: An Extraordinarily Migratory and Multipotent Embryonic Cell Population
Chapter 10 Modeling Neurodegenerative Diseases and Neurodevelopmental Disorders with Reprogrammed Cells
Chapter 11 Cytokine Regulation of Intestinal Stem Cells
Chapter 12 The Intestinal Stem Cell Niche and Its Regulation by ErbB Growth Factor Receptors
Chapter 13 Tissue Engineering: Intestine
Chapter 14 Liver Stem and Progenitor Cells in Development, Disease and Regenerative Medicine
Chapter 15 Lung Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Chapter 16 FGF Signaling in Lung Stem and Progenitor Cells
Chapter 17 Bioengineering Distal Airways
Chapter 18 The Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Cancer Stem Cells (Aggressive Endophenotypes) in Individual Lung Cancers
Chapter 19 Mesenchymal Stromal Cell-Based Therapies for Lung Diseases and Critical Illnesses
Chapter 20 Heart Regeneration and Repair: What We Have Learned From Model Organisms
Chapter 21 Leveraging Structure-Based Rational Drug Design and Nanotechnoiogy to Destroy Leukemic Stem Cells
Chapter 22 Placenta-Derived Stem Cells: Development and Preclinical Applications for Regenerative Medicine
Chapter 23 Stem Cells in the Real World: Environmental Impacts
Chapter 24 Establishing a Research Grade Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Laboratory 497
Index