Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 4, 2012 Therapeutic Applications in Disease and Injury Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells Series, Vol. 4

I. Molecular genetic.-1 Neural stem/progenitor cell proliferation and differentiation: role of sonic hedgehog and wingless/int-1 proteins.-2 Sensitivity of hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells to hoxa gene levels.-3. Maintenance of neural stem cells in the brain: role of notch signaling.-4 Maintenance of hematopoiesis: role of early b cell factor 2 matthias kieslinger.-5 Differentiation of periodontal stem/progenitor cells: roles of tgf-β1.-6 Induced pluripotent stem cells from human extra-embryonic amnion cells: role of dna methylation in mainting stemness.-7 Smooth muscle cell differentiation from embryonic stem cells: role of hdac7 and pdgf-bb.-8 Adult neural stem cells; identity and regulation. II. Regenerative Medicine.-9 Tendon injury: role of differentiation of aduilt and embryonic derived stem cells.-10 The potential of stem cells and tissue engineered scaffolds for repair of the central nervous system.-11 Improving the efficacy of diabetes mellitus treatment by combining cell replacement therapy with immune correction.-12 Induced pluripotent stem cell production  and characterization: an overview of somatic cell reprogramming.-13 Proliferation of bone marrow-derived human mesenchymal stem cells: role of enamel matrix proteins.-14 Pluripotent cell-derived glial precursor cells for the delivery of therapeutic proteins to the central nervous system.-15 Cellularized scaffolds: new clothes for cardiac regenerative medicine.-16 Microencapsulation procedures for the immunoisolation of wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cells: a review. III Therapy.-17 Human hair follical stem cells: markers, selection and perspective clinic application.-18 Adipose-derived stem cells: therapy through paracrine actions.-19 Mesenchymal stem cell-natural killer cell interactions.-20 Malignant gliomas: treatment using genetically-modified neural stem cells.-21 Thecancer stem cell hypothesis and its impact on the design of new cancer therapies.-22 Breast cancer stem cell: translating to the clinic.-23 Enhanced growth and metastasis of colon cancer: role of mesenchymal stem cells.-24 Proteomic characterization of mesenchymal stem cell-like populations derived from various tissue types. IV Transplantations.-25 Severe combined immunodefieciency patients: immune recovery after stem cell transplantation.-26 Transplanted mesenchymal stem cells aid the injured brain through trophic support mechanisms.Index.