Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 8

Preface. I. Stem cell culture.-1 Stem cell culture: optimizing amidst the complexity.-2 Development of defined culture conditions for expansion of human mesenchymal stromal cells for clinical applications.-3 Retention of stem cell properties post-expansion in myosphere culture.II. Bone marrow stem cells.-4 Role of reactive oxygen species formation form oxidized low density lipoprotein in bone marrow stem cells.-5 The role of bone marrow-derived progenitor cells in tumor growth and angiogenesis.-6 Myelodysplastic stem cells: gene expression profiling.III. Mesenchymal stem cells.-7 Human mesenchymal stem cell transdifferentiation to neural cells: role of tumor necrosis factor alpha.-8 Role of mesenchymal stem cells (msc) in hiv-1 associated bone and lipid toxicities.-9 Mesenchymal stem cell therapy: immunomodulation and homing mechanisms.-10 Mesenchymal stem cells: the role of endothelial cells and the vasculature.-11 Use of cancer/testis antigens in immunotherapy: potential effect on mesenchymal stem cells.IV. Reprogramming and differentiation of stem cells.-12 Regulation of self-renewal and pluripotency of embryonic stem cells: role of natriuretic peptide receptor.-13 Reprogramming and pluripotency of epiblast stem cells.-14 Epigenetic modifiers and stem cell differentiation.-15 Enrichment and selection of stem cell-derived tissue-specific precursors.-16 Differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into steroidogenic cells: role of sf-1 regulator.-17 Human embryonic stem cell differentiation: role of glycosphingolipid structure.-18 Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into pancreatic endocrine cells.-19 ransformation of vascular endothelial cells into multipotent stem-like cells: role of the activin-like kinase 2 receptor.V. Treatment.-20 Colon cancer stem cells: a therapeutic target.-21 Treatment of damaged brain following a stroke: new strategies.-22 Parthenogenetic activation-induced pluripotent stem cells and potential applications.-23 Neuroprotection forstroke using glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor/neural stem cells grafting.-24 Derivation of germ cells from pluripotent stem cells: prospects and applications.-25 Purinergic receptors in stem cell biology.-26 Cancer stem cells of the head and neck.-27 Functional restoration of salivary glands after radiotherapy: roles of wnt and hedgehog pathways.-28 Neural stem cell migration: role of directional cues and electric fields.-29 Abl-kinase mutations in progenitors and stem cells from chronic myeloid leukemia patients.VI. Transplantation.-30 Treatment for erectile dysfunction after radical prostatectomy: transplantation of stem/progenitor cells.-31 Collection of peripheral blood stem cells from healthy family and unrelated donors for haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.-32 Effects of smoking on the outcomes of cancer patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.-33 Ex vivo expansion of stem and progenitor cells using thrombopoietin.Index.