Stem cells
Subtitle: from mechanisms to technologies
By: Michal K. Stachowiak, Emmanuel S. Tzanakakis, editors
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9789814317702
Subjects: Stem cells; Research
Notes: Errata (contributors) inserted.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. System biology lessons for stem cells. Ch. 1. Computational modeling of biochemical processes and cell differentiation / Max Floettmann, Till Scharp, and Edda Klipp; title: Ch. 2. Heterogeneity and flexibility of stem cell fate decisions : a conceptual perspective / Ingmar Glauche and Ingo Roeder; title: Ch. 3. Comparative transcriptomics for global functional profiling of embryonic stem cells / Yu Sun and Ming Zhan; title: Ch. 4. A common integrative nuclear signaling module for stem cell development / Michal K. Stachowiak, Ewa K. Stachowiak, John M. Aletta, and Emmanel S. Tzanakais; title: Pt. 2. From mechanisms to enabling technologies for stem cells. Ch. 5. Generation, characterization and propagation of human-induced pluripotent stem cells / Sheena Abraham, Marion J. Riggs, Ena Xiao, Khaled Alsayegh, Venkat Gadepalli, and Raj R. Rao; title: Ch. 6. The importance of physiological physiochemical parameters on hematopoietic stem-cell maintenance and lineage-specific differentiation in Ex Vivo cultures / Stephan Lindsey and Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis; title: Ch. 7. Stem cell bioprocessing for regenerative medicine / Donghui Jing, Abhirath Parikh, and Emmanuel S. Tzanakakis; title: Ch. 8. Engineering bioactive scaffold for stem cell vascular therapy / Abigail C. Cuddy, Yu-I Shen, and Sharon Gerecht; title: Ch. 9. Biofunctionalized surfaces controlling stem cell fate decisions / Leonora Buzanska, Ana Ruiz, and Laura Ceriotti; title: Ch. 10. Human umbilical cord blood-derived cells : implications in experimental and clinical therapy of CNS disorders / Barbara Lukomska, Leonora Buzanska, and Krystyna Domanska-Janik; title: Ch. 11. Triggering neuronogenesis by endogenous brain stem cells with DNA nanoplexes / Ewa K. Stachowiak, Indrajit Roy, and Michal K. Stachowiak; title: Ch. 12. Cancer stem cells - targets for future cancer therapies / Andrew Puca, Valentina Malafoglia, and Antonio Giordano.