Published January, 2013
By Kyle E. Orwig and Brian P. Hermann
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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Scientists investigating germ cells have, over the past 15 years, originated discoveries and innovations that give us valuable insights into the mechanisms that regulate not just stem cell function, but human development in its widest sense.

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Published December, 2012
By Krishnarao Appasani and Raghu K. Appasani
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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Major contributions in this young century in the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry and genomics were integrated with both embryology and developmental biology to provide an understanding of the molecular portrait of a "development cell." That new integrated approach is known as stem-cell biology;

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Published December, 2012
By Stephen H. Tsang and Stephen Tsang
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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Patient specific and disease specific stem cell lines have already introduced groundbreaking advances into the research and practice of ophthalmology. Stem Cells in Ophthalmology is part of the Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine series dedicated to discussing current challenges and future directions in stem cell research.

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Published October, 2012
By Paul J. Fairchild
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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This volume offers an analysis of the scale and nature of the immunological issues facing regenerative medicine, drawing on the expertise of laboratories around the world who have taken up the challenge of applying their expertise in immunology to the vagaries of stem cell biology.

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Published October, 2012
By Mauricio Rojas
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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In this state-of-the-art exploration of a hugely dynamic and fast-evolving field of research, leading researchers share their collective wisdom on the role that stem cells could play in the context of physiological stress and lung injury.

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Published June, 2012
By Mahendra S. Rao, Mohan C. Vemuri, Melissa Carpenter and Scott Lipnick
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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This expanded and updated edition reflects the enormous increase in our knowledge of the development of the nervous system and the use of neural stem cells in clinical applications.

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Published May, 2012
By Motonari Kondo
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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In the summer of 1988, my developmental biology professor announced to the class that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) had finally been purified.

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Published March, 2012
By Shimon Efrat
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetes, one of the latest installments of the Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine series, reviews the three main approaches for generation of sufficient numbers of insulin-producing cells for restoration of an adequate beta-cell mass: beta-cell expansion, stem-cell differentiation, and nuclear reprogramming.

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Published February, 2012
By Dov Zipori
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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Biology of Stem Cells and the Molecular Basis of the Stem State concentrates upon adult stem cells, particularly on mesenchymal cell populations, which is the author's area of expertise.

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Published December, 2011
By Juan Dominguez-Bendala
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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From the discovery of Pdx1, the first "master gene" of pancreatic development, to the most recent findings on the role of microRNAs in beta cell homeostasis, the last fifteen years have seen an unprecedented advance in our understanding of the precise development and organization of the many different cell types that make up the pancreas.

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