| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 285 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| 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] |
| Summary |
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 clinical research areas are covered. This journey will take the reader from the bench-top to the bedside, with all chapters written by leading authorities in their respective fields, including data still in press with medical journals. So, beyond being excellent as an overall update for scientists in the field of cardiac stem cell therapy, this book will likely prove an indispensable tool for every budding scientist considering a research project within this field |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Heart -- Diseases -- Treatment.
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Stem cells -- Transplantation.
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Stem cells.
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Cardiovascular Diseases -- therapy
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Stem Cell Transplantation
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Stem Cells
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MEDICAL -- Cardiology.
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Heart -- Diseases -- Treatment
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Stem cells
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Stem cells -- Transplantation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dimarakis, Ioannis.
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| LC no. |
2009288081 |
| ISBN |
9781848162570 |
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184816257X |
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1282440861 |
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9781282440869 |
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9786612440861 |
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6612440864 |
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