Stem Cell Regulators

Content: 
Copyright
Page iv

Former Editors
Page v

Contributors
Pages xv-xix

Preface
Pages xxi-xxii

Apology
Page xxiii

Chapter One - Factors Regulating Pluripotency and Differentiation in Early Mammalian Embryos and Embryo-derived Stem Cells
Pages 1-37
Aneta Suwinska, Maria A. Ciemerych

Chapter Two - Molecular Mediators of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Biology
Pages 39-59
Maria P. Alfaro, Sarika Saraswati, Pampee P. Young

Chapter Three - Insulin and Germline Proliferation in Caenorhabditis elegans
Pages 61-77
E. Jane Albert Hubbard

Chapter Four - Generating Mature β-Cells From Embryonic Stem Cells: Strategies for Late-Stage Differentiation
Pages 79-92
Spyridon Champeris Tsaniras

Chapter Five - Activation and Regulation of Reserve Liver Progenitor Cells
Pages 93-109
D. Hunter Best, William B. Coleman

Chapter Six - Adult Cardiac-Derived Stem Cells: Differentiation and Survival Regulators
Pages 111-125
Nanako Kawaguchi

Chapter Seven - TGF-β1 Regulates Differentiation of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Pages 127-141
Longmei Zhao, Basil M. Hantash

Chapter Eight - Maternal Intake of Folic Acid and Neural Crest Stem Cells
Pages 143-173
Chandra S. Mayanil, Shunsuke Ichi, Barbara-Mania Farnell, Vanda Boshnjaku, Tadanori Tomita, David G. McLone

Chapter Nine - Modulation of the Generation of Dopaminergic Neurons from Human Neural Stem Cells by Bcl-XL: Mechanisms of Action
Pages 175-205
Alberto Martínez-Serrano, Claudia G. Castillo, Elise T. Courtois, Elisa García-García, Isabel Liste

Chapter Ten - Glucocorticoid Hedgehog Agonists in Neurogenesis
Pages 207-215
Jiangbo Wang, Larry S. Barak, Robert A. Mook Jr., Wei Chen

Chapter Eleven - Effect of Progesterone on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Pages 217-237
Dobroslav S. Kyurkchiev, Ekaterina Ivanova-Todorova, Stanimir D. Kyurkchiev

Chapter Twelve - Regulation of Muscle Stem Cells Activation: The Role of Growth Factors and Extracellular Matrix
Pages 239-276
Edyta Brzoska, Maria A. Ciemerych, Marta Przewozniak, Małgorzata Zimowska

Chapter Thirteen - Thymosins and Muscle Regeneration
Pages 277-290
Takahiko Hara

Chapter Fourteen - MicroRNAs and Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Pages 291-320
Federica Collino, Stefania Bruno, Maria Chiara Deregibus, Ciro Tetta, Giovanni Camussi

Chapter Fifteen - MicroRNA and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
Pages 321-339
Changqing Xie, Jifeng Zhang, Y. Eugene Chen

Chapter Sixteen - Transforming Growth Factor-Beta Superfamily in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal
Pages 341-365
Katherine E. Galvin-Burgess, Jay L. Vivian

Chapter Seventeen - The Biology of HIFα Proteins in Cell Differentiation and Disease
Pages 367-379
Inmaculada Royo González, Victoria Moreno-Manzano, Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Jimenez, Pilar Sepúlveda, José-María Sánchez-Puelles

Chapter Eighteen - Regulatory Role of Klf5 in Early Mouse Development and in Embryonic Stem Cells
Pages 381-397
Silvia Parisi, Tommaso Russo

Chapter Nineteen - Bam and Bgcn in Drosophila Germline Stem Cell Differentiation
Pages 399-416
Sreejith Perinthottathil, Changsoo Kim

Chapter Twenty - The Effects of Mechanical Loading on Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation and Matrix Production
Pages 417-480
Robin M. Delaine-Smith, Gwendolen C. Reilly

Index
Pages 481-490