Trends in stem cell biology and technology / edited by Hossein Baharvand

1. Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Their Nature, Properties, and Uses / Ariff Bongso and Chui-Yee Fong -- 2. Production of Uniparental Embryonic Stem Cell Lines / Sigrid Eckardt and K. John McLaughlin -- 3. Parthenogenetic Embryonic Stem Cells in Nonhuman Primates / Neli Petrova Ragina and Jose Bernardo Cibelli -- 4. Nuclear and Somatic Cell Genetic Reprogramming / Maurizio Zuccotti, Silvia Garagna and Carlo Alberto Redi -- 5. Reprogramming Male Germ Cells to Pluripotent Stem Cells / Parisa Mardanpour, Kaomei Guan, Tamara Glaeser, Jae Ho Lee, Jessica Nolte, Gerald Wulf, Gerd Hasenfuss, Wolfgang Engel, Oliver Brustle and Karim Nayernia -- 6. Pluripotent Stem Cell Epigenetics During Development and Cancer / Noelia Andollo, M. Dolores Boyano, M. del Mar Zalduendo and Juan Arechaga -- 7. Observing and Manipulating Pluripotency in Normal and Cloned Mouse Embryos / Sebastian T. Balbach, F. M. Cavaleri, Luca Gentile, Marcos J. Arauzo-Bravo, Hans R. Scholer, N. Crosetto and Michele Boiani -- 8. Current Developments in Genetically Manipulated Mice / Klaus I. Matthaei -- 9. Differentiating Gametes from Stem Cells / Ana Isabel Marques-Man, Jose Vicente Medrano and Carlos Simon -- 10. Spermatogonial Stem Cells / Dirk G. de Rooij -- 11. Regulated Transcripts and Coregulated microRNAs in Male Spermatogonial Stem Cells / Virginie Olive, Francois Cuzin and Minoo Rassoulzadegan -- 12. Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Basic Biology and Clinical Applications for Bone Tissue Regeneration / Basem M. Abdallah, Hamid Saeed and Moustapha Kassem -- 13. Clinical Cell Therapy for Heart Disease / Christof Stamm, Boris Nasseri and Roland Hetzer -- 14. Embryonic Stem Cells, Cardiomyoplasty, and the Risk of Teratoma Formation / Tomo Saric, Lukas P. Frenzel, Azra Fatima, Manoj K. Gupta and Jurgen Hescheler -- 15. Neural Differentiation of Human Embryonic stem Cells and Their Potential Application in a Therapy for Sensorineural Hearing Loss / Objoon Trachoo and Marcelo N. Rivolta -- 16. Stem Cell Transplantation Supports the Repair of Injured Olfactory Neuroepithelium After Permanent Lesion / Valeria Franceschini, Simone Bettini, Riccardo Saccardi and Roberto P. Revoltella -- 17. Strategies Toward Beta-Cell Replacement / Enrique Roche, Nestor Vicente-Salar, Maribel Arribas and Beatriz Paredes -- 18. Corneal Epithelial Stem Cells and Their Therapeutic Application / Sai Kolli, Majlinda Lako, Francisco Figueiredo and Sajjad Ahmad -- 19. Tissue Engineered Scaffolds for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine / Hossein Hosseinkhani and Mohsen Hosseinkhani -- 20. Mechanotransduction and Its Role in Stem Cell Biology / Christopher B. Wolf and Mohammad R. K. Mofrad.