Springer, 2019. — 213 p. — (Advances and Controversies in Hematopoietic Transplantation and Cell Therapy) — ISBN: 978-3-319-55130-2 In this book, world-renowned experts in the field of hematopoietic cell transplantation examine a range of issues and controversies relating to apheresis, with the aim of identifying current trends and best practices. Readers will find up-to-date...
Springer, 2012. — 157 p. Human pluripotent stem cells, including human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells, are a key focus of current biomedical research. The emergence of state of the art culturing techniques is promoting the realization of the full potential of pluripotent stem cells in basic and translational research and in cell-based therapies. This...
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000. — 951 p. The third edition of this comprehensive reference on high dose cancer therapy has been overhauled, with 28 of 50 chapters either completely updated or rewritten by new authors. This is designed to reflect the fact that this treatment modality is now the standard of care for a variety of cancers, including 10,000 to 20,000 cases a...
ISTE Press - Elsevier, 2018. — 183 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78548-254-0. This book traces the discovery of stem cells and induced pluripotent cells. It establishes the link between knowledge about cell development and tissue engineering, and presents perspectives in regenerative medicine. Cell proliferation and tissue architecture open up unexpected applications in tissue engineering,...
Academic Press, 2018. — 406 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812015-6. This book provides researchers and clinicians with a comprehensive description of the current clinical and pre-clinical applications of stem cells derived from perinatal sources, such as amniotic fluid, placenta and placental membranes, the umbilical cord and Wharton’s jelly. It's compiled by leading experts in the...
Wiley&Sons, 2009. - 266 p. Because the concept and discoveries of cancer stem cells are relatively new, scientists and researchers need an introduction to this dynamic area. Cancer Stem Cells presents a consolidated account of the research done to date and recent progresses in the studies of cancer stem cells. Such a presentation facilitates a better understanding of and draws...
Springer, 2015. —366 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-21081-0 This book presents a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of the organization of endogenous lung stem and progenitor cell compartments during fetal lung development, postnatal lung growth and in adulthood. Progressing stage by stage, the chapters on fetal lung development emphasize the integrated role of...
Wiley Interscience, 2007. — 1451 p. — ISBN: 9780470151808. Stem cell biology is emerging as a field in biology with tremendous therapeutic potential. Making this potential a reality requires an international effort. The recognition that such a promising yet multifaceted discipline needs fostering led to the establishment of the International Society for Stem Cell Research...
Springer, 2015. — 288 p. This book represents a major contribution to the emerging science of regenerative medicine using non-fetal sources of stem cells. The Editors, Dr Niranjan Bhattacharya and Professor Phillip Stubblefield, have brought together some of the most pre-eminent scientists working on regenerative medicine to share information on currently ongoing work in this...
Springer, 2015. — 288 p. This book represents a major contribution to the emerging science of regenerative medicine using non-fetal sources of stem cells. The Editors, Dr Niranjan Bhattacharya and Professor Phillip Stubblefield, have brought together some of the most pre-eminent scientists working on regenerative medicine to share information on currently ongoing work in this...
Springer, 2019. — 233 p. — (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 1123). — ISBN: 978-3-030-11095-6. This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the novel concepts in stem cell heterogeneity, from pluripotent stem cells to human mesenchymal stem cells, adult and cancer stem cells of the thyroid, sarcoma, and more. Thus, Stem Cell Heterogeneity - Novel Concepts...
Springer, 2017. — 276 p. — (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology). — ISBN10: 3319691937, 13 978-3319691930. This book discusses the main stem cell niches under distinct pathophysiological conditions. The role of tissue microenvironments in stem cell regulation, as well as modern methodologies and new techniques for the identification and characterization of stem cell...
Springer, 2017. — 341 p. — (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology). — ISBN10: 3319691937, 13 978-3319691930. This book discusses the main stem cell niches under distinct pathophysiological conditions. The role of tissue microenvironments in stem cell regulation, as well as modern methodologies and new techniques for the identification and characterization of stem cell...
3rd ediion. — Blackwell, 2004. — 1603 p. — ISBN: 978-1-405-11256-7 This is an essential resource for all hematologists, oncologists, pathologists, pediatricians, immunologists and all others interested in this dynamic area of medicine. Extensive coverage of subject area - from the scientific basis to the view of the future; includes all experimental research and clinical...
Springer Science & Business Media, 2008. — 188 p. Much of our knowledge of stem cells has been inferred from studies of remarkable few species. The ability to manipulate stem cells in "model" organisms such as the mouse and a few other vertebrate species has driven our understanding of basic biology of stem cells. The power and efficiency of studying model organisms, however,...
Springer, 1999. — 419 p. — (Cancer Treatment and Research) — ISBN: 978-0-7923-7714-6 The field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is rapidly evolving. Realization that hematopoietic stem cells give rise to the immune compartment has resulted in clinical trials of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for patients with autoimmune diseases. Allogeneic hematopoietic...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. - 634 p. - The first volume of Stem Cells deals with the fundamental principles that govern embrionic and somatic stem cells biology. Historically, the identification and characterization of such pathways and general rules of stemness occured during embrionic development and Volume I reflects this with topics spanning cell cycle regulation,...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. - 474 p. - The second volume in the Stem Cells series concentrates on the mechanisms of stem cell regeneration in the adult organism with a view towards understanding how lost tissue can be replaced during adulthood and aging. The second focus of this volume is on stem cell identification and manipulation, including applications in basic research,...
Academic Press, 2019. — 520 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-811920-4. This book is a resource that provides an overview of the principles of stem cell therapy, the promises and challenges of using stem cells for treating various clinical conditions, and future perspectives. The overall goal is to facilitate the translation of basic research on stem cells to clinical applications. The...
Springer, 2015. — 200 p. This volume presents the most current reviews on how cancer stem cells (CSCs) hypothesis dictates that the continued proliferation of a tumor is dependent on a sub-population of self-renewing and asymmetrically dividing neoplastic stem cells that supply a largely differentiated tumor. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the characteristics...
Humana Press, 2016. — 319 p. — (Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine) — ISBN10: 3319291475. The book reviews the main approaches for generation of differentiated cells from various types of stem cells, including embryonic, placental and cord blood stem cells through marrow, adipose tissue and dental pulp. The book starts with an overview of experimental protocols applied...
Bentham Books, 2016. — 261 p. Research into stem cells started in the 1960s with experiments on spleen cultures. Evans and Kaufman made a breakthrough in mouse embryo culturing and embryonic stem cell extraction in 1981, followed by the work of Thomson in 1998 on the technique for extracting human embryonic stem cells. Since then, stem cell research has rapidly expanded as a...
Academic Press, 2020. — 213 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-819713-4. This book provides a contemporary overview of the fast-moving field of MSC biology, regenerative medicine and therapeutics. MSCs offer the potential to dramatically reduce human suffering from disease. Numerous MSC-based studies are ongoing each year, each offering hope for novel treatments in human disease. This book...
Humana Press, 2015. — 351 p. This book covers the identification and role of endogenous lung stem cells in health and disease, particularly the most recent advances. In addition, it discusses the rapidly growing field of stem cells and cell therapy as it relates to lung biology and disease as well as ex vivo lung bioengineering. Such approaches may provide novel therapeutic...
5th edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 1738 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-41600-6 Fully revised, this outstanding reference on bone marrow transplantation is an essential, field-leading resource. In the past four decades, scientific progress in the area has led to an exponential increase in the number of transplant recipients worldwide, and this increase has been paralleled by...
Springer, 2015. — 357 p. Aging of somatic stem cells reduces cell function and results in dysfunctional organs and tissues, making it an underlying cause of diseases associated with aging. It might even be the primary cause for age-associated attrition of tissue function in organs that heavily rely on stem cells for maintaining homeostasis, like the skin, blood and intestines....
Springer, 2018. - 307 p. - ISBN: 978-3-319-59356-2 Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a lifesaving, costly, and complex procedure. More than one million transplants have been performed worldwide. Results are dependent on the center infrastructure, staff expertise, quality of transplant outcomes reporting, and training programs. In order to help new centers in...
Walter de Gruyter, 2013. — 426 p. This book investigates the current state of the MSC-dependent therapy of chronic inflammatory disorders and autoimmune diseases. Among the covered topics are GvHD, chronic kidney, liver and lung disease, ischemic heart and inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, various rheumatic and neurological disorders, tumors and solid organ...
Springer, 2015. — 223 p. This lavishly-illustrated, authoritative atlas explores the intricate art of culturing human pluripotent stem cells. Twelve chapters – containing more than 280 color illustrations – cover a variety of topics in pluripotent stem cell culturing including mouse and human fibroblasts, human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells,...
World Scientific Publishing, 2018. — 567 p. — ISBN: 9813147741. Tissue engineering integrates knowledge and tools from biological sciences and engineering for tissue regeneration. A challenge for tissue engineering is to identify appropriate cell sources. The recent advancement of stem cell biology provides enormous opportunities to engineer stem cells for tissue engineering....
Springer, 2017. — 338 p. This book covers recent advances in all aspects of bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMSCs) for stroke treatment, while also providing comprehensive information on human clinical trials and animal models of stroke. In addition, it reviews the optimal conditions of transplantation for stroke therapy and potential mechanisms underlying transplanted...
Springer, 2016. — 245 p. Volume 951 of Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Biobanking is considered to be one of the ten ideas changing the world with an estimated value of $45 billion by 2025. Despite the challenges, as the climate for innovation in the biobanking industry continues to flourish around the world, it is certain that amazing discoveries will emerge...
Nova Biomedical, 2012. — 289 p. It is for the first time that experimentally induced generation and isolation of cancer stem cells (CSC), with the fusion of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) in vivo, is contained as content in this book. This methodology can be extended to the use of stem cells of totipotent, pluripotent and even multipotent lineages. This book consists of...
Nova Science Publishers, 2016. — 310 p. Stem cells of varying potencies originating from the organ generating totipotent embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to terminally differented cells such as platelets formation, via pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), and their downstream multipotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), have in general been well characterized. Thus majority of...
Humana Press, 2009. — 252 p. In the summer of 1988, my developmental biology professor announced to the class that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) had finally been purified. Somehow, I never forgot the professor’s words. When I started working in Dr. Irv Weissman’s labo- tory at Stanford as a postdoctoral fellow, I realized that the findings mentioned by the professor were from...
Columbia University Press, 2015. — 256 p. Stem cells and the emerging field of regenerative medicine are at the frontiers of modern medicine. These areas of scientific inquiry suggest that in the future, damaged tissue and organs might be repaired through personalized cell therapy as easily as the body repairs itself, revolutionizing the treatment of numerous diseases. Yet the...
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2016. — 80 p. — ISBN10: 365812878X Manuel Kroiss examines the differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells using machine learning methods. This work is based on experiments focusing on the lineage choice of CMPs, the progenitors of HSCs, which either become MEP or GMP cells. The author presents a novel approach to distinguish MEP from GMP cells...
Humana Press, 2015. — 225 p. This comprehensive volume is the first to specifically target developing, adult and diseased neural stem cells. It explores recent advances in the understanding of neural stem cell biology along with strategies that use these cells to tackle neurological diseases and brain aging. Ten inclusive chapters discuss a wide range of topics including...
Academic Press, 2009. — 630 p. This large book follows the common trend in new and emerging sciences in being written by a large number of authors who are active researchers in the field. The science simply has not yet had time to resolve itself into a common body of knowledge that one author can present to the world. In this book there are some 200 contributors from literally...
World Scientific, 2011. - 488 p. Tissue engineering integrates knowledge and tools from biological sciences and engineering for tissue regeneration. A challenge for tissue engineering is to identify appropriate cell sources. The recent advancement of stem cell biology provides enormous opportunities to engineer stem cells for tissue engineering. The impact of stem cell...
Springer, 2016. — 216 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-25425-8. Ischemic heart disease (IHD) and heart failure (HF) are the major causes of morbidity and mortality in Europe and worldwide. IHD and HF patients could benefit from therapies that would accelerate natural processes of postnatal collateral vessel formation and/or muscle regeneration. Although treatment for acute myocardial...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. - 2001. Edited by Daniel R. Marshak, Richard L. Gardner and David Gottlieb The field of stem cell research has attracted many investigators in the past several years. Progress in embryology, hematology, neurobiology, and skeletal biology, among many other disciplines, has centered on the isolation and characterization of stem cells. The...
Academic Press, 2019. — 234 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-811014-0. This book provides graduate students and neuroscientists with a basic understanding of what neural stem cells are and the cell types they produce. This early graduate level reference describes their physiology and potential for medicine and provides students with fundamental stem cell information. An overview of stem...
Springer, 2011. — 349 p. Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) offer an unlimited self-renewing capacity, as opposed to the limits of adult stem cells; therefore, ESCs represent an almost bottomless resource for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering approaches. In Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy for Osteo-Degenerative Diseases: Methods and Protocols, accomplished investigators provide...
Netherlands: Springer, 2006. — 168 p. This book has information on how to isolate, grow, and characterize MSC from marrow and fat, and gives important insight into how these cells may be used for gene delivery and cellular therapies in the future. Updates on emerging clinical trials are given. Mesenchymal Stem Cell Engineering and Transplantation. Establishment and Transduction...
Springer, 2017. — 237 p. — ISBN10: 3319477617. — ISBN13: 978-3319477619. This book provides a multifaceted look into the world of stem cells and explains the similarities and differences between plant and human stem cells. It explores the intersection between animals and plants and explains their cooperative role in bioengineering studies. The book treats both theoretical and...
Springer, 2018. — 167 p. — (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 1083). — ISBN: 978-3-319-77481-7. This new series, based on a bi-annual conference and its topics, represents a major contribution to the emerging science of cancer research and regenerative medicine. Each volume brings together some of the most pre-eminent scientists working on cancer biology, cancer...
Springer, 2017. — 266 p. — (Stem Cells in Clinical Applications). — ISBN: 331933719X. This invaluable resource explores the regenerative potential of stem cells in the nervous system, with a focus on clinical applications. The expertly authored chapters discuss cell-based therapies for spinal cord injury and regeneration, traumatic brain injury, glioblastoma, Parkinson's...
World Scientific, 2011. — 542 p. This is a comprehensive review of the current state of stem cell bioengineering from authorities in the field. The first part of the book includes the basic research work on stem cells and bioengineering carried out by various laboratories. The second part consists of a review of the current development of various microcapsules in stem cell...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2018. — 387 p. — ISBN: 9781119283225 (PDF). This book contains material contributed by forward-looking scientists who work at the interface of stem cell research and applied science with the aim to improve human fetal safety and the understanding of human developmental and degenerative disorders. Provides important platforms and contemporary accounts of...
Humana Press, 2015. — 295 p. This volume presents up-to-date methods that allow primary stem cells from a variety of sources to be isolated, cultured in vitro, detected and measured for specific applications. These applications range from those in basic, stem cell and veterinary research to toxicology, cellular therapy and regenerative medicine. There is a slight bias towards...
Humana Press, 2004. 526 p. ISBN: 1-58829-113-8, E-ISBN: 1-59259-411-5 This survey on the "state-of-the-science" of stem cell biology explains the origins of stem cells and describes how they function, how they can cause illness, and how they might be employed to cure or ameliorate disease. In particular, the authors discuss the roles of stem cells in development and...
2nd Edition. - Springer, 2013 - 524 p. - Stem Cells Handbook, second edition, emphasizes the advances in understanding and working with embryonic and fetal stem cells as well as induced pluripotent stem cells that show the most promise for clinical use. This new edition has been completely rewritten and updated to reflect the significant advances made in this field since...
Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2008. - 336 p. ISBN: 978-1-4020-8501-7 This book is an updated reference for one of the most exciting field of biomedical researches- Stem Cell Research and its therapeutic applications. Stem cell research holds great promise for the treatment of many human diseases that currently lack effective therapies. The set of chapters in this book...
World Scientific, 2012. — 156 p. The book offers readers an understanding of the development of neural crest cells, which is crucial as many birth defects and tumours are of neural crest origin. The neural crest is a transient tissue of the vertebrate embryo. It originates from the future spinal cord and neural crest stem cells emigrate from this location to various places in...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. — 270 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-23515-6. Introduces all of the essential cell biology and developmental biology background for the study of stem cells This book gives you all the important information you need to become a stem cell scientist. It covers the characterization of cells, genetic techniques for modifying cells and organisms, tissue culture...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 144 p. Embryonic stem cells have been hot-button topics in recent years, generating intense public interest as well as much confusion and misinformation. In this Very Short Introduction, leading authority Jonathan Slack offers a clear and informative overview of stem cells--what they are, what scientists do with them, what stem cell therapies...
2nd Edition. — Academic Press, 2019. — 429 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812630-1. This book, Second Edition once again provides clinical and scientific researchers with a deep understanding of the current research in this field and the implications for translational practice. By providing an overview of the immune biology of HSCT, an explanation of immune rejection, and detail on...
World Scientific, 2012. — 396 p. Advances in stem cell biology and biotechnology have sparked hopes that therapies will soon be available for maladies which were considered incurable before. However, realization of the clinical potential of stem cells will require better understanding of stem cell physiology and the development of advanced technologies for their efficient...
John Wiley and Sons, 2007. — 429 p. — ISBN: 978-0-470-03356-2 With this valuable practical guide, three members of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have compiled and edited the definite handbook for the exciting new field of human embryonic stem cell research. The editors have gathered protocols from scientists with extensive reputation and expertise, describing and comparing...
Springer, 2020. — 153 p. — (Cell Biology and Translational Medicine 1237) — ISBN: 978-3-030-37844-8 Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells. Much of this research has been fueled by their potential for use in regenerative medicine applications, which has in turn spurred growing numbers of translational and clinical studies....
Humana Press, 2015. — 415 p. The potential of human embryonic stem cells to advance not only regenerative medicine applications but also our fundamental understanding of stem cell biology continues to drive interest in research with these cells. This detailed volume collects some of the most interesting and useful protocols that have emerged in the area over the last several...
Humana Press, 2007. — 374 p. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology, № 407 With such benefits as producing cell types to replace worn-out cells and regenerating damaged tissue, stem cells and regenerative medicine is a rapidly emerging field focusing on improving human health. In Stem Cell Assays, an expert team of hands-on researchers contribute step-by-step laboratory protocols...
Nova Science Publishers, 2017. — 345 p. Despite extensive research and medical advancements in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of dreaded diseases like Diabetes, Cancer, Neurodegenerative and Heart diseases, continue to impose a great threat to human life. Research in human developmental biology has led to the discovery of stem cells which has the potential to cure wide...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 760 p. — ISBN10: 111997139X. — ISBN13: 978-1119971399. This book is a unique guide to emerging stem cell technologies and the opportunities for their commercialisation. It provides in-depth analyses of the science, business, legal, and financing fundamentals of stem cell technologies, offering a holistic assessment of this emerging and dynamic segment...
National Academy of Sciences, 2003. — 113 p. At the committee’s workshop, held on June 22, 2001, scientists, philosophers, ethicists, and legal experts presented their views in two general categories. First, leading scientific investigators addressed the following scientific questions: What are stem cells? What are their sources, and what biological differences exist among...
World Scientific, 2015. — 550 p. Stem cells, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are fast moving fields with vastly transformative implications for the future of health care and capital markets. This book will show the state of the art in the translational fields of stem cell biology, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The state of developments in specific...
Springer, 2019. - 90 p. This book presents an overview of a new group of progenitor stem cells. Their origins were originally detected in light- and electron microscopical sections of plastic embedded human embryonal and fetal organs. The distribution of these cells can result in a large quantity of ectopic stem cells. The observation of these ectopic stem cells leads us to...
Springer, 2019. — 225 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-04951-5. This book models project-based environments that are intentionally designed around the United States Common Core State Standards (CCSS, 2010) for Mathematics, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States, 2013) for Science, and the National Educational Technology Standards (ISTE, 2008). The primary purpose of this...
Springer, 2013. - 313 p. - Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), a type of adult stem cells, have attracted the attention of scientists and physicians alike due to their unique biological properties and potential for disease treatment. As stem cell research is complex and progressing rapidly, it is important that the experts in this field share their views and perspectives. This book,...
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