Praise for the series: "Full of interest not only for the molecular biologist-for whom the numerous references will be invaluable-but will also appeal to a much wider circle of biologists, and in fact to all those who are concerned with the living cell." --British Medical Journal
WNT Signaling and Cardiac Differentiation
Michael P. Flaherty, Timothy J. Kamerzell and Buddhadeb Dawn
Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Stem Cell Behavior
Guo-Chang Fan
Preconditioning Approach in Stem Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Infarcted Heart
Khawaja Husnain Haider and Muhammad Ashraf
Myocardial Regeneration: The Role of Progenitor Cells Derived From Bone Marrow and Heart
Xiaohong Wang, Arthur H. L. From and Jianyi Zhang
Induced Pluripotent Cells in Cardiovascular Biology: Epigenetics, Promises and Challenges
Raj Kishore and Eneda Hoxha
Roles of MicroRNAs and Myocardial Cell Differentiation
Tomohide Takaya, Hitoo Nishi, Takahiro Horie, Koh Ono and Koji Hasegawa
Induction of Somatic Cell Reprogramming Using the MicroRNA miR-302
Karen Kelley and Shi-Lung Lin
From Ontogenesis to Regeneration: Learning How to Instruct Adult Cardiac Progenitor Cells
Isotta Chimenti, Elvira Forte, Francesco Angelini, Alessandro Giacomello and Elisa Messina
Genetic Modification of Stem Cells for Cardiac, Diabetic and Hemophilia Transplantation Therapies
M. Ian Phillips and Yao Liang Tang
Progenitor Cell Mobilization and Recruitment: SDF-1, CXCR4, a 4-integrin, and c-kit
Min Cheng and Gangjian Qin
Reprogramming of Somatic Cells
Johnson Rajasingh
Cross-talk between the Notch signal and non-coding RNA on the Fate of Stem Cells
Yaoliang Tang, Yingjie Wang, Lijuan Chen and Neal Weintraub
Genetically Manipulated Progenitor/Stem Cells Restore Function to the Infarcted Heart via the SDF-1a/CXCR4 Signaling Pathway
Yigang Wang and Kristin Luther
Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Somatic Cells