Stem Cells Handbook / Edition 1

by Stewart Sell

Overview

The power of stem cells for tissue development, regeneration, and renewal has been well known by embryologists and developmental biologists for many years. Those presently active in research in the stem cell field owe much to previous work by embryologists and cancer researchers for their insights into what stem cells can do. In the last 4- 5 years, the rapid expansion of the concept of adult tissue stem cells as pluripotent progenitors for various tissues has led to an even greater appreciation of the power of stem cells. The demonstration that both embryonic and adult tissue stem cells have the ability to produce progenitor cells for tissue renewal has opened vast possibilities for treatment of congenital deficiency diseases as well as for regeneration of damaged tissues. Older concepts of determination leading to loss of potential during differentiation of adult tissues are being replaced by newer ideas that cells with multiple potential exist in different forms in various adult organs and that cells thought to be restricted to differentiation to one cell type may be able to "transdifferentiate" into other tissue cell types. Thus, the concept of "embryonic rests" in adult tissues, hypothesized to be the cellular origin of cancer by Durante and Conheim in the 1870s, now can be expanded to include survival of pluripotential embryonic-like stem cells in adult tissues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617373671
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Pages:	509
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 10.98(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Dr. Sell is a board certified pathologist and immunologist. He began research in 1957 while a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh, in the Department of Pathology, under Frank J. Dixon. After a pathology residency at Massachusetts Hospital, and post doctoral fellowships at NIH and Birmingham England he returned to the University of Pittsburgh for 5 years before moving to the University of California at San Diego. After 12 years at UCSD, Dr. Sell took the position as Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas (UT) at Houston before moving to Albany Medical College. As of February 2003 he has been a senior scientist at Wadsworth Center, a Professor at University at Albany School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor at Albany College of Pharmacy. Dr. Sell received the Rudolph L. K. Virchow Award of the Italian Medical Magazine LeadershipMedica.com for his concept of cancer stem cells; he was named Legacy Laureate of the University of Pittsburgh for his work on alpha-fetoprotein as a marker for liver cancer; and in 2007 received the Abbott Award of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine for recognizing the role of stem cells in carcinogenesis. He has published over 400 papers and 12 books, including 6 editions of Immunology, Immunopathology and Immunity. His paper with Barry Pierce (Lab. Invest. 70:6-21, 1994.) was selected as an AACR scientific landmark.

Table of Contents

1 Stem Cells: What Are They? Where Do They Come From? Why Are They Here? When Do They Go Wrong? Where Are They Going?.- 2 Stem Cells from Early Mammalian Embryos: Common Themes and Significant Differences.- 3 Embryonic Stem Cells: Isolation and Application of Pluripotent Cells from the Pregastrulation Mammalian Embryo.- 4 From Stem Cells to Functional Tissue Architecture: What Are the Signals and How Are They Processed?.- 5 Germline Stem Cells.- 6 Stem Cells and Cloning.- 7 Genomic Imprinting in Mouse Embryonic Stem and Germ Cells.- 8 Stem Cells in Amphibian Regeneration.- 9 Stem Cells in Dermal Wound Healing.- 10 Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells.- 11 Normal and Leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Lineages.- 12 Developmental Origin of Murine Hematopoietic Stem Cells.- 13 Stromal Support of Hematopoiesis.- 14 Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Identification, Characterization, and Assays.- 15 Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Leukemia and Lymphoma.- 16 Neurons, Stem Cells, and Potential Therapies.- 17 Neural Stem Cells: From In Vivo to In Vitro and Back Again—Practical Aspects.- 18 Molecular Genetic Approaches in the Study of Retinal Progenitor Cells and Stem Cells.- 19 Endothelial Progenitor Cells.- 20 Development of the Cardiovascular System in Embryoid Bodies Derived from Embryonic Stem Cells.- 21 Transcription Factors, Growth Factors, and Signal Cascades Capable of Priming Cardiogenesis.- 22 Strategies Using Cell Therapy to Induce Cardiomyocyte Regeneration in Adults with Heart Disease.- 23 Generation and Stem Cell Repair of Cardiac Tissues.- 24 Stem Cells in Kidney Morphogenesis.- 25 Nephroblastoma: A Metanephric Caricature.- 26 Stem Cells in Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer.- 27 The Stem Cell Plasticity of Aggressive Melanoma Tumor Cells.- 28 Stem Cells in Glandular Organs.- 29Gastrointestinal Stem Cells: Proliferation Kinetics and Differentiation Hierarchies.- 30 Stem Cell Origin of Cell Lineages, Proliferative Units, and Cancer in the Gastrointestinal Tract.- 31 Specification of Liver from Embryonic Endoderm.- 32 Animal Models for Assessing the Contribution of Stem Cells to Liver Development.- 33 Normal Liver Progenitor Cells in Culture.- 34 Permanent Lines of Stem Cells from the Liver.- 35 Biology of Human Liver Stem Cells.- 36 Transplantation of Hepatic Stem Cells and Potential Applications for Cell Therapy.- 37 Plasticity of Adult-Derived Pancreatic Stem Cells.- 38 Islet Cells.- 39 Mammary Epithelial Stem Cells.- 40 Morphogenesis of Prostate Cancer.- 41 Stem Cells in Lung Morphogenesis, Regeneration, and Carcinogenesis.- 42 Noninvasive Imaging in Stem Cell Therapies: Current State and Future Perspectives.- 43 What Is the Future for Stem Cell Research?: Whether Entity or Function?.

Editorial Reviews

"Truly outstanding descriptions of the fields of early mammalian development, DNA methylation, neural stem cell biology, and imaging technologies help round the reader's knowledge through the use of perspicuous language and concepts." - Developmental Cell

From the Publisher

5 Stars! from Doody

Reviewer: Marco Prisco, PhD (Thomas Jefferson University)
Description: This book covers what stem cells are, how they behave, and what promise they represent for future clinical interventions.
Purpose: The goal of this book is to provide investigators one resource for both background and current understanding of the various aspects of stem cell biology. In general, the book achieves its goals.
Audience: It is intended for senior investigators, research fellows, and graduate students. The authors are all experienced investigators working in this area of research.
Features: The book covers the major aspects of the field of stem cell research. Basic concepts and methodologies are also presented for readers who are not expert in the field. The content of the book is well chosen and well explained and the illustrations can be easily followed thanks to really clear legends. The chapters on the hematopoietic stem cells are particularly well presented. The properties of the hematopoietic stem cells as well as the clinical results achieved by bone marrow stem cells transplantation are well explained and documented in several chapters.
Assessment: This is a useful book. It is more than a compact overview of the field of stem cells. Each chapter contains adequate descriptions and sufficient references to allow the investigator to refer the original source.

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