Essential Stem Cell Methods. Reliable Lab Solutions

Table of Contents

Section 1: Organ-Derived Stem Cells

1. Neural Stem Cell Isolation and Characterization
Rodney L. Rietze and Brent A. Reynolds
2. Neural Stem Cells and Their Manipulation Evan Snyder
3. Retinal Stem Cells
Thomas A. Reh and Andy J. Fischer
4. Dental Pulp Stem Cells
He Liu, Stan Gronthos and Songtao Shi
5. Spermatogonial Stem Cells
Jon M. Oatley and Ralph L. Brinster
6. Stem Cells in the Lung
Xiaoming Liu, Ryan R. Driskell and John F. Engelhardt
7. Pancreatic Cells and Their Progenitors
Seth J. Salpeter and Yuval Dor
8. Pluripotent Stem Cells from Germ Cells Candace L. Kerr, Michael J. Shamblott and John D. Gearhart
9. Amniotic Fluid and Placental Stem Cells Dawn M. Delo, Paolo De Coppi, Georg Bartsch, Jr. and Anthony Atala
10. Cord Blood Stem and Progenitor Cells Mervin C. Yoder
11. Purification of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using the Side Population
K.K. Lin and Margaret A. Goodell
12. Microarray Analysis of Stem Cells and Differentiation
Howard Y. Chang
13. Tissue Engineering Using Adult Stem Cells Daniel Eberli
14. Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering
Nicholas W. Marion and Jeremy J. Mao

Section II: Embryonic Stem Cells

15. Murine Embryonic Stem Cells
Andras Nagy and Kristina Vintersten
16. Human Embryo Culture
Amparo Mercader, Diana Valbuena and Carlos Sim�n
17. Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Douglas Melton
18. Characterization and Evaluation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Chunhui Xu
19. Feeder-Free Culture of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Michal Amit and Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor
20. Neural Stem Cells, Neurons, and Glia
Steven M. Pollard, Alex Benchoua and Sally Lowell
21. Hematopoietic Cells
Malcolm A.S. Moore, Jae-Hung Shieh and Gabsang Lee
22. Cardiomyocytes
Xiangzhong Yang, Xi-Min Guo, Chang-Yong Wang and X. Cindy Tian
23. Insulin-Producing Cells
Insa S. Schroeder, Gabriela Kania, Przemyslaw Blyszczuk
24. Transgene Expression and RNA Interference in Embryonic Stem Cells
Holm Zaehres and George Q. Daley
25. Lentiviral Vector-Mediated Gene Delivery into Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Michal Gropp and Benjamin Reubinoff
26. Engineering Embryonic Stem Cells with Recombinase Systems
Frank Schn�tgen, A. Francis Stewart, Harald von Melchner and Konstantinos Anastassiadis
27. Tissue Engineering Using Embryonic Stem Cells Shahar Cohen, Lucy Leshanski and Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor

Authors

Robert Lanza Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Westborough, MA, USA. Robert Lanza is an American scientist and author whose research spans the range of natural science, from biology to theoretical physics. TIME magazine recognized him as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World,� and Prospect magazine named him one of the Top 50 "World Thinkers.� He has hundreds of scientific publications and over 30 books, including definitive references in the fields of stem cells, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. He's a former Fulbright Scholar and studied with polio-pioneer Jonas Salk and Nobel laureates Gerald Edelman (known for his work on the biological basis of consciousness) and Rodney Porter. He also worked closely (and co-authored papers in Science on self-awareness and symbolic communication) with noted Harvard psychologist BF Skinner. Dr. Lanza was part of the team that cloned the world's first human embryo, the first endangered species, and published the first-ever reports of pluripotent stem cell use in humans. Irina Klimanskaya Advance Cell Technology, Worcester, MA, USA.