Handbook of cardiac stem cell therapy

Handbook of cardiac stem cell therapy / edited by Ioannis Dimarakis [and others].

This book is an impressive compilation of contributions on the hot topic of cardiac stem cell therapy from leading groups all over the world. In the assembly of chapters, a structured approach is adopted; starting from the clinician's perspective, all developments in both the experimental and c...

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Other Authors: Dimarakis, Ioannis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Imperial College Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Heart > Diseases > Treatment.
Stem cells > Transplantation.
Stem cells.
MEDICAL > Cardiology.
Heart > Diseases > Treatment
Stem cells
Stem cells > Transplantation
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The meritocracy of stem cells for therapy / Myrtle Y. Gordon and Nagy A. Habib
  • 2. Overview of adult stem cell therapy in cardiac disease / Georgios Nteliopoulos, Natas̮a Levic̮ar and Ioannis Dimarakis
  • 3. Embryonic stem cells and their therapeutic potential / Tomo S̮arić [and others]
  • 4. Umbilical cord blood cells for cardiac repair / Elad Maor, Arnon Nagler and Jonathan Leor
  • 5. Amniotic stem cells / Paolo De Coppi, Anthony Atala and Saverio Sartore
  • 6. Stem cell homing to injury in cellular cardiomyoplasty / Adil Al Kindi, Dominique Shum-Tim and Ray Chu-Jeng Chiu
  • 7. A Molecular imaging perspective on cardiac repair with stem cells / Kishore Bhakoo
  • 8. Marrow stromal cells as universal donor cells for cardiac regenerative therapy : fact or fancy? / Jun Luo, Dominique Shum-Tim and Ray Chu-Jeng Chiu
  • 9. The preclinical basis to find the right choice of stem cells for cardiac transplantation / Matthias Siepe
  • 10. Bone marrow-derived stem cells for treatment of ischaemic heart disease : background and experience from clinical trials / Ketil Lunde and Svend Aakhus
  • 11. Skeletal myoblast transplantation for ischemic heart failure / Philippe Menasché
  • 12. Myocardial tissue regeneration observed in stem-cell seeded bioengineered scaffolds / Yen Chang [and others]
  • 13. Stem cells and heart valves / Danielle Gottlieb, Fraser W.H. Sutherland and John E. Mayer Jr.
  • 14. Potential applications of combined stem cell and gene therapy for the treatment of infarcted heart / Husnain Khawaja Haider and Muhammad Ashraf
  • 15. Optimal expansion and differentiation of cord blood stem cells using design of experiments / Mayasari Lim [and others].

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