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Stem cells : scientific facts and fiction /
The second edition of Stem Cells: Scientific Facts and Fiction provides the non-stem cell expert with an understandable review of the history, current state of affairs, and facts and fiction of the promises of stem cells. Building on success of its award-winning preceding edition, the second edition...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK :
Academic Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Stem Cells: Scientific Facts and Fiction; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The Biology of the Cell; 1.1 Organisms' Composition; 1.2 Deoxyribonucleic Acid, Genes, and Chromosomes; 1.3 How the Amount of Messenger Ribonucleic Acid is Regulated; 1.4 From Messenger Ribonucleic Acid to a Functional Protein; 1.5 From Deoxyribonucleic Acid and Proteins to a Cell with a Specific Function; 1.5.1 Epigenetic Regulation; 1.5.2 Ribonucleic Acid Interference; 1.6 Deoxyribonucleic Acid Differences Between Genomes; 1.7 Diseases Due to Variations and Genome Mutations
- 1.8 Dominant or Recessive1.9 Deoxyribonucleic Acid Outside the Nucleus: Bacterial Remains; 1.10 Cell Lines and Cell Culture; 2 Embryonic Development; 2.1 Fertilization and Early Embryo Development; 2.2 Sex Cells and Germ Cell Tumors; 3 What Are Stem Cells?; 3.1 What are the Properties of Stem Cells That Make Them Different from Other Cells?; 3.2 Totipotency and Pluripotency, and Embryonic Stem Cells; 3.3 Multipotency, Unipotency, and Adult Stem Cells; 3.4 Cell Division and Aging: The Role of Telomerase; 3.5 The Relationship Between Cell Division and Differentiation: Epigenetics
- 3.6 Epigenetics in Stem Cells4 Of Mice and Men: The History of Embryonic Stem Cells; 4.1 How it All Began: Pluripotent Cells in Early Embryos; 4.2 Mouse Embryonal Carcinoma Cell Lines; 4.3 Pluripotent Cells in an Early Embryo; 4.4 Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Lines; 4.5 Toward Human Embryonic Stem Cells; 4.6 On the Road to Stem Cell Therapy; 4.7 Biased Interpretation; 4.8 The Future: Stem Cell Transplantation as a Clinical Treatment; 4.9 Breakthrough of the Decade in the Twenty-First Century: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; 5 Origins and Types of Stem Cells: What's in a Name?
- 5.1 Pluripotent Stem Cells5.1.1 Embryonal Carcinoma Cells; 5.1.2 Embryonic Stem Cells; 5.1.3 Embryonic Germ Cells; 5.1.4 Spermatogonial Stem Cells; 5.1.5 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; 5.2 Multipotent Stem Cells; 5.2.1 Bone Marrow; 5.2.2 Umbilical Cord Blood; 6 Cloning: History and Current Applications; 6.1 Before Dolly; 6.2 Cloning Pets: Snuppy, Missy, and Copycat; 6.3 Just Imagine What Could Be; 6.4 Cloning Domestic Livestock; 6.5 Cloning Challenges; 7 Regenerative Medicine: Clinical Applications of Stem Cells; 7.1 Therapeutic Cell Transplantation
- 7.2 Number of Cells Needed for Cell Transplantation7.3 Why Some Diseases will be Treatable with Stem Cells in the Future and Others Not; 7.3.1 Loss of One Cell Type or More Cell Types; 7.3.2 Inherited and Acquired Diseases; 7.3.3 Diabetes Type 1: An Autoimmune Disease; 7.3.4 Spinal Cord Injury and Multiple Sclerosis: Restoring Demyelination; 7.3.5 Macular Degeneration: The Ideal Disease; 7.3.6 Deafness; 7.4 The Best Stem Cells for Transplantation; 7.5 Combining Gene Therapy with Stem Cell Transplantation; 7.6 Where to Transplant Stem Cells and Their Effect