Neural Stem Cells for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair (Hardcover, 2003)

Part I. Stem Cells for and from the CNS: Their Source and Fundamental Properties Sources of Cells for CNS Therapy Melissa K. Carpenter, Mark Mattson, and Mahendra S. Rao Neural Stem Cells and Their Plasticity Angela Gritti, Angelo Vescovi, and Rossella Galli Identification, Selection, and Use of Adult Human Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells Martha Windrem, Neeta Roy, Marta Nunes, and Steven A. Goldman Generation, Characterization, and Transplantation of Immortalized Human Neural Crest Stem Cells Eiji Nakagawa, Kozo Hatori, Atsushi Nagai, Hyun B. Choi, Myung A. Lee, Jung H. Bang, Jean Kim, Jae K. Ryu, Akihiko Ozaki, Min C. Lee, Evan Y. Snyder, and Seung U. Kim The Search for Neural Progenitors in Bone Marrow and Umbilical Cord Blood Shijie Song, Paul Sanberg, and Juan Sanchez-Ramos Part II. In Vitro and/or In Vivo Manipulations of Stem/Progenitor Cells for the CNS Signal Transduction Pathways That Regulate Neural Stem Cell Division and Differentiation Luciano Conti and Elena Cattaneo Neural Stem/Progenitor Cell Clones or 'Neurospheres': A Model for Understanding Neuromorphogenesis Dennis A. Steindler, Bjorn Scheffler, Eric D. Laywell, Oleg N. Suslov, Tong Zheng, Thomas Reiniger, and Valery G. Kukekov Neural Stem Cells and Specification of Cell Fates: Biological and Therapeutical Perspectives Marcel M. Daadi Manipulation of Neural Precursors In Situ: Potential for Brain Self-Repair Sanjay S. P. Magavi and Jeffrey D. Macklis Neural Stem Cells in the Adult Hippocampus Jasodhara Ray and Daniel A. Peterson Part III. Stem/Progenitor Cells in Representative Therapeutic Paradigms for the CNS Global Gene and Cell Replacement Strategies via Stem Cells Kook In Park, James J. Palacino, Roseanne Taylor, Karen S. Aboody, Barbara A. Tate, Vaclav Ourednik, Jitka Ourednik, Mahesh Lachyankar, and Evan Y. Snyder Neural Stem Cells in and from the Spinal Cord, Yang D. Teng, Mary Katherine C. White, Erin Lavik, Shaoxiang Liu, Mahesh Lachyankar, Kook In Park, and Evan Y. Snyder Stem Cells for Spinal Cord Injury, Paul Lu, Evan Y. Snyder, and Mark H. Tuszynski Spinal Ischemia-Induced Paraplegia: A Potential Therapeutical Role of Spinally Grafted Neural Precursors and Human hNT Neurons Martin Marsala, Osamu Kakinohana, Tony L. Yaksh, and Joho Tokumine Utilization of Marrow Stromal Cells for Gene Transfer into the CNS S. Ausim Azizi, Emily J. Schwarz, Darwin Prockop, Guillermo Alexander, Katherine A. Mortati, and Barbara Krynska Preclinical Basis for Use of NT2N Cells in Neural Transplantation Therapy Cesario V. Borlongan and Paul R. Sanberg Index