Genetics of Stem Cells: Part a Volume 111 (Hardcover)

1. WNT Signaling and Cardiac Differentiation

Michael P. Flaherty, Timothy J. Kamerzell and Buddhadeb Dawn

2. Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Stem Cell Behavior

Guo-Chang Fan

3. Preconditioning Approach in Stem Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Infarcted Heart

Khawaja Husnain Haider and Muhammad Ashraf

4. Myocardial Regeneration: The Role of Progenitor Cells Derived From Bone Marrow and Heart

Xiaohong Wang, Arthur H. L. From and Jianyi Zhang

5. Induced Pluripotent Cells in Cardiovascular Biology: Epigenetics, Promises and Challenges

Raj Kishore and Eneda Hoxha

6. Roles of MicroRNAs and Myocardial Cell Differentiation

Tomohide Takaya, Hitoo Nishi, Takahiro Horie, Koh Ono and Koji Hasegawa

7. Induction of Somatic Cell Reprogramming Using the MicroRNA miR-302

Karen Kelley and Shi-Lung Lin

8. From Ontogenesis to Regeneration: Learning How to Instruct Adult Cardiac Progenitor Cells

Isotta Chimenti, Elvira Forte, Francesco Angelini, Alessandro Giacomello and Elisa Messina

9. Genetic Modification of Stem Cells for Cardiac, Diabetic and Hemophilia Transplantation Therapies

M. Ian Phillips and Yao Liang Tang

10. Progenitor Cell Mobilization and Recruitment: SDF-1, CXCR4, a 4-integrin, and c-kit

Min Cheng and Gangjian Qin

11. Reprogramming of Somatic Cells

Johnson Rajasingh

12. Cross-talk between the Notch signal and non-coding RNA on the Fate of Stem Cells

Yaoliang Tang, Yingjie Wang, Lijuan Chen and Neal Weintraub

13. Genetically Manipulated Progenitor/Stem Cells Restore Function to the Infarcted Heart via the SDF-1α/CXCR4 Signaling Pathway

Yigang Wang and Kristin Luther

14. Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Somatic Cells

Young-Doug Sohn, Ji Woong Han and Young-sup Yoon