Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Acknowledgments; Preface; Contents; Part I. Stem Cells; Therapeutical Potential of Stem Cells; Embryonic Stem Cells, a Promise of Therapeutic Applications; Mesenchymal Stem Cell Characterization; Mesenchymal Stem Cells; Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine; Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Biology and Clinical Application; Umbilical Cord Blood: From Current Use to Future Applications; Adipose Stem Cells: Identification, Properties and Interest for Clinical Applications; Circulating Stem Cells Including Endothelial Progenitor Cells
  • Cancer Stem Cells: The Example of Leukemic Stem CellsInfluence of Mechanical Forces on Cells and Tissues; Myofibroblasts: Origins and Regulation of Phenotype by Mechanical Signaling; Part II. Applications; Cell Therapy in Hematology: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantations in 2012; Interaction Between Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Acute Leukemia; Anti-Viral Immunotherapy After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; Adipose Stromal/Stem Cell and Cardiovascular Repair; Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Ischemic Cardiomyopathy; Heart Development and Cardiac Stem Cells
  • Cell Therapy for Muscular DystrophiesGene Therapy for the Treatment of Genetic Muscle Disease; Anti-Thrombogenic Strategies Toward Vascular Grafts Development; Neural Tissue Engineering Strategies; Chondrocytes and Mechanical Forces; Articular Cartilage Engineering; Chondrogenic Differentiation of Human Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells; Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Treatment of Cartilage Lesions; Subchondral Bone Alterations Associated with Marrow Stimulation for Articular Cartilage Repair
  • Experimental Data and Clinical Implications; Gene Therapy of Osteochondral Defects
  • Stem and Progenitor Cells for Liver Regenerative MedicineCell Therapy of Burns; Bioengineered Corneas: From Epithelial Cells Culture to 3D Models; Alternatives to Allogeneic Red Blood Cells Transfusion
  • In vitro Maturated Red Blood Cells a New Step in Cell Therapy; European Regulations of MSC for Clinical Uses; Author Index