Preface ......................................................... v
Contributors ................................................... ix
1 Cellular Cardiomyoplasty: Its Past, Present, and Future ...... 1
Elizabeth K. Lamb, Grace W. Kao, and Race L. Kao
2 Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells .................................. 19
Grace W. Kao, Elizabeth K. Lamb, and Race L. Kao
3 Bone Marrow Stem Cells ...................................... 33
Minh Ngoc Duong, Yu-Ting Ma, and Ray С.J. Chiu
4 Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Isolation,
Expansion and Characterization .............................. 47
Miriam Araña, Manuel Mazo, Pablo Aranda, Beatriz Pelacho,
and Felipe Prosper
5 Cardiac Side Population Cells and Sea-1-Positive Cells ...... 63
Toshio Nagai, Katsuhisa Matsuura, and Issei Komuro
6 Two-Step Protocol for Isolation and Culture of
Cardiospheres ............................................... 75
Lijuan Chen, Yaohua Pan, Lan Zhang, Yingjie Wang, Neal
Weintraub, and Yaoliang Tang
7 Generation of Human iPSCs from Human Peripheral Blood
Mononuclear Cells Using Non-integrative Sendai Virus
in Chemically Defined Conditions ............................ 81
Jared M. Churko, Paul W. Burridge, and Joseph C. Wu
8 Identification of Stem Cells After Transplantation .......... 89
Yingjie Wang, Lan Zhang, Yaohua Pan, Lijuan Chen,
Neal Weintraub,and Yaoliang Tang
9 Methods to Study the Proliferation and Differentiation
of Cardiac Side Population (CSP) Cells ...................... 95
Konstantina-Ioanna Sereti, Angelos Oikonomopoulos,
Kazumasa Unno, and Ronglih Liao
10 Immune Responses After Mesenchymal Stem Cell Implantation .. 107
Rony Atoui and Ray C.J. Chiu
11 Route of Delivery, Cell Retention, and Efficiency of
Polymeric Microcapsules in Cellular Cardiomyoplasty ........ 121
Alice Le Huu, Arghya Paul, Satya Prakash, and Dominique
Shum-Tim
12 Angiogenic Nanodelivery Systems for Myocardial Therapy ..... 137
Arghya Paul, Dominique Shum-Tim, and Satya Prakash
13 Bio-hybrid Tissue Engineering for Cellular
Cardiomyoplasty:Future Directions .......................... 151
Juan Carlos Chachques
14 Decellularized Whole Heart for Bioartificial Heart ......... 163
Hug Aubin, Alexander Kranz, Jörn Hülsmann, Artur
Lichtenberg, and Payam Akhyari
15 Clinical Trials of Cardiac Repair with Adult Bone
Marrow-Derived Cells ....................................... 179
Vinodh Jeevanantham, Mohammad R. Afzal, Ewa
K. Zuba-Surma, and Buddhadeb Dawn
16 Clinical Study Using Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal-Like
Stem Cells in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Heart
Failure .................................................... 207
Ilia Alexander Panfilov, Renate de Jong, Shin-ichiro
Takashima, and Henricus J. Duckers
Index ......................................................... 213
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