Stem cell repair and regeneration, volume 2 (Imperial College Press, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Defining progenitors based on their expression of aldehyde dehydrogenase / Robert W. Storms -- Fetal mesenchymal stem cells are more primitive than adult mesenchymal stem cells / Cecilia Götherström, Pascale V. Guillot, and Nicholas M. Fisk -- The immunoregulatory role of mesenchymal stem cells / Francesco Dazzi and Jennifer Timoshanko -- Understanding cell migration through the paradigm of T-lymphocyte homing / Vincenzo Mirendo and Federica M. Marelli-Berg -- Blueprint for the response of blood and bone marrow-derived stem cells and their progeny to hypoxia / Suzanne M. Watt ... [et al.] -- The potential of stem cells in tissue engineering / Nicholas D. Evans and Julia M. Polak -- Joint tissue engineering / Cosimo De Bari, Constantino Pitzalis and Francesco Dell'Accio -- Adult stem cells as a treatment for liver diseases / Nataša Levičar -- The generation of pancreatic beta cells from stem cells : intra- and extrapancreatic sources / Mairi Brittan ... [et al.] -- Cytokines and stem cell differentiation into cardiomyocyte lineage cells / Ioannis Dimarakis -- Regulatory networks controlling neural stem cell self-renewal and differentiation / Yanhong Shi -- Demyelination as a therapeutic target in spinal cord injury / Jill R. Faulkner and Hans S. Keirstead -- Microchimeric foetal stem cells and non-invasive prenatal genetic diagnosis / Magued Adel Aziz Mikhail -- The role of stem cells in liver and gastrointestinal cancer / Malcolm R. Alison, Nicholas A. Wright, and Simon Leedham -- Embryonic stem cells : innovation in predictive toxicology / Gabriela Gebrin Cezar and Jessica Quam