Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 4

I. Molecular genetic. -1 Neural stem/progenitor cell proliferation and differentiation: role of sonic hedgehog and wingless/int-1 proteins. -2 Sensitivity of hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells to hoxa gene levels. -3. Maintenance of neural stem cells in the brain: role of notch signaling. -4 Maintenance of hematopoiesis: role of early b cell factor 2 matthias kieslinger. -5 Differentiation of periodontal stem/progenitor cells: roles of tgf-ß1. -6 Induced pluripotent stem cells from human extra-embryonic amnion cells: role of dna methylation in mainting stemness. -7 Smooth muscle cell differentiation from embryonic stem cells: role of hdac7 and pdgf-bb. -8 Adult neural stem cells; identity and regulation. II. Regenerative Medicine. -9 Tendon injury: role of differentiation of aduilt and embryonic derived stem cells. -10 The potential of stem cells and tissue engineered scaffolds for repair of the central nervous system. -11 Improving the efficacy of diabetes mellitus treatment by combining cell replacement therapy with immune correction. -12 Induced pluripotent stem cell production and characterization: an overview of somatic cell reprogramming. -13 Proliferation of bone marrow-derived human mesenchymal stem cells: role of enamel matrix proteins. -14 Pluripotent cell-derived glial precursor cells for the delivery of therapeutic proteins to the central nervous system. -15 Cellularized scaffolds: new clothes for cardiac regenerative medicine. -16 Microencapsulation procedures for the immunoisolation of wharton s jelly mesenchymal stem cells: a review. III Therapy. -17 Human hair follical stem cells: markers, selection and perspective clinic application. -18 Adipose-derived stem cells: therapy through paracrine actions. -19 Mesenchymal stem cell-natural killer cell interactions. -20 Malignant gliomas: treatment using genetically-modified neural stem cells. -21 Thecancer stem cell hypothesis and its impact on the design of new cancer therapies. -22 Breast cancer stem cell: translating to the clinic. -23 Enhanced growth and metastasis of colon cancer: role of mesenchymal stem cells. -24 Proteomic characterization of mesenchymal stem cell-like populations derived from various tissue types. IV Transplantations. -25 Severe combined immunodefieciency patients: immune recovery after stem cell transplantation. -26 Transplanted mesenchymal stem cells aid the injured brain through trophic support mechanisms. Index.