Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Chapter 1: Embryonic Stem Cells; Chapter 2: Building Blood Vessels Using Endothelial and Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells; Chapter 3: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; Chapter 4: Guiding Stem Cell Fate through Microfabricated Environments; Chapter 5: Spatial Localization of Growth Factors to Regulate Stem Cell Fate; Chapter 6: Regulation of Capillary Morphogenesis by the Adhesive and Mechanical Microenvironment; Chapter 7: Treating Cardiovascular Diseases by Enhancing Endogenous Stem Cell Mobilization
Chapter 8: Stem Cell Homing to Sites of Injury and InflammationChapter 9: In Vitro Vascular Tissue Engineering; Chapter 10: Scaffold-Based Approaches to Maintain the Potential of Transplanted Stem Cells; Chapter 11: Combined Therapies of Cell Transplantation and Molecular Delivery; Back Cover
Summary
In the last few decades, significant advancements in the biology and engineering of stem cells have enabled progress in their clinical application to revascularization therapies. Some strategies involve the mobilization of endogenous stem cell populations, and others employ cell transplantation. However, both techniques have benefited from multidisciplinary efforts to create biomaterials and other biomedical tools that can improve and control the fate of stem cells, and advance our understanding of them. Stem Cells and Revascularization Therapies focuses on the fundamentals and applied studies
