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Stem Cells : an Insider's Guide.
Stem Cells: An Insider's Guide is an exciting new book that takes readers inside the world of stem cells guided by international stem cell expert, Dr. Paul Knoepfler. Stem cells are catalyzing a revolution in medicine. The book also tackles the exciting and hotly debated area of stem cell treat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 Meet Your Stem Cells; What are Stem Cells?; What Do Stem Cells Do?; A Stem Cell Fountain of Youth?; The Cancer Connection; Stem Cell Therapies; Stem Cell Veterinary Medicine: Helping Our Pets and Animals Too; Getting Schooled in Stem Cells; Recommended Stem Cell Resources; #Stemcell social media; The top stem cell journals; Patient's guide to research papers: Be skeptical; Be aware but wary of mainstream media articles; Try to attend stem cell meetings; Summary; References; 2 The Types of Stem Cells and Their Clinical Potential.
- What Stem Cell Treatments PromiseThe Four Main Kinds of Stem Cells for Treatments; Adult stem cells; Fetal stem cells; Embryonic stem cells; Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells; Summary; References; 3 Stem Cell Treatments: Applications and Obstacles; The Key Ways Stem Cells Can Be Used as Medicines; Cell therapy; Immunomodulation therapy; Secretion of trophic factors; Drug delivery; Powerful Applications for iPS Cells: Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery; Stem Cells May Greatly Reduce the Need for Animal Research Via Modeling; Lessons from Bone Marrow Transplants.
- Cautionary Lessons from Gene Therapy for the Stem Cell FieldFour Key Biological Roadblocks to Stem Cell Treatments; Immunity issues; Genome issues; Epigenome issues; Tumorigenicity; Cell Fusion and Confusion of Cell Identity; Bias; Building Rather Than Burning Stem Cell Bridges; Practical issues I: Cost; Practical issues II: Timing; What Really Happens to Transplanted Stem Cells: More Challenges; Post-transplant of stem cells, we have no control of them; Lessons from the dead: Transplanted adult stem cells generally fail to engraft.
- Almost certain death awaits nearly 100% of transplanted cellsStem Cell Capsule; Summary; References; 4 Stem Cell Models: Past, Present, and Future; The Discovery of Stem Cells; Models of Stem Cells Based on Function; A New Global Symbol for Stem Cells for the Future; Not Lost in Translation: A Global Model of Stem Cells for the Future; The Cultural Language of Stem Cells; References; 5 All in the Family: An Insider's Tale of Two Stem Cells and a Black Sheep; Starting the Tour: A Backstage Pass to a Stem Cell Lab; An Insider's Tour of a Prototypic Stem Cell; The stem cell membrane.
- Going through the membrane into the cytoplasmThe surprisingly powerful stem cell cytoplasm; Getting to the heart of the matter: The nucleus; A Day in the Cellular Life of an Endogenous Stem Cell; The niche; Leaving the niche; My Pet Stem Cell: The Very Different Cellular Life in a Lab; Who is going to feed the stem cells and what are they going to feed them?; Who will clean up after the stem cells?; Who will take the stem cell for walks?; Where is the stem cell going to sleep?; Who will take care of the stem cell when we are on vacation?