Cell and Molecular Biology and Imaging of Stem Cells (Hardcover)

Contributors vii

Preface xi

1 Cell and Molecular Biology and Imaging of Stem Cells: Stem Cells from the Amniotic Fluid and Placenta 1
Amritha Kidiyoor, Sean V. Murphy, and Anthony Atala

2 Biomaterials as Artificial Niches for Pluripotent Stem Cell Engineering 21
Kyung Min Park and Sharon Gerecht

3 Low-Intensity Ultrasound in Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering 45
Byung Hyune Choi, Kil Hwan Kim, Mrigendra Bir Karmacharya, Byoung-Hyun Min and So Ra Park

4 Mammalian Neo-Oogenesis from Ovarian Stem Cells In Vivo and In Vitro 67
Antonin Bukovsky and Michael R. Caudle

5 Oct4-EGFP Transgenic Pigs as a New Tool for Visualization of Pluripotent and Reprogrammed Cells 137
Monika Nowak-Imialek and Heiner Niemann

6 Regulation of Adult Intestinal Stem Cells through Thyroid Hormone-Induced Tissue Interactions during Amphibian Metamorphosis 153
Atsuko Ishizuya-Oka

7 Stem Cell Therapy for Veterinary Orthopedic Lesions 173
Anna Paula Balesdent Barreira and Ana Liz Garcia Alves

8 Sex Steroid Combinations in Regenerative Medicine for Brain and Heart Diseases: The Vascular Stem Cell Niche and a Clinical Proposal 193
Antonin Bukovsky and Michael R. Caudle

9 Hair Follicle Stem Cells 211
Hilda Amalia Pasolli

10 The Potential of Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Skin Diseases 223
Shigeki Ohta, Ophelia Veraitch, Hideyuki Okano, Manabu Ohyama, and Yutaka Kawakami

11 Mitochondrial Differentiation in Early Embryo Cells and Pluripotent Stem Cells 247
Heide Schatten, Qing-Yuan Sun, and Randall S. Prather

12 The Role of Centrosomes in Cancer Stem Cell Functions 259
Heide Schatten

Index 281