Human iPS Cells in Disease Modelling

ISBN-13: 9784431567394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 99 str.

Opis

Human iPS cells have a great potential to be cell sources forregenerative medicine because of the promise of infinite self-renewal and thecapability to differentiate into multiple cell types. This book focuses onanother great potential of human iPS cells, which is the establishment of humandisease models using patient-specific iPS cells. Human iPS cells can be easilyobtained from a patient's somatic cells and provide the entire information on thepatient's genome. Accordingly, we can generate disease models for inheritablediseases in cell culture dishes using iPS cells. This is a quite new techniquebut holds tremendous potential for our increased understanding of pathogenesis,and will then be the basis for novel drug development industries. All theauthors are leading researchers in this field and they have reported many kindsof patient-derived iPS cells. In this book, they introduce the aspects thatcould be recapitulated in terms of disease modelling as well as furtherinnovative findings such as novel pathogenetic insights and novel therapies.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Recent Improvements and Emerging Issues in iPSC Generation for the Modeling of Disease.- Chapter 2 Cardiomyopathy.- Chapter 3 Modelling Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy with Patient-specific iPSCs.- Chapter 4 Cardiac Arrhythmia Modelling Using iPS Cells.- Chapter 5 iPSC Disease Modeling of Laminopathies.- Chapter 6 Hematological Disorders.- Chapter 7 Inherited Metabolic Disorders of the Liver.   

O autorze

Dr. Keiichi Fukuda obtained PhD degree in Division of Medicine, Keio University Graduate School, Japan in 1987. He started his carrier as an assistant Professor at Keio University, and promoted to full Professor in 2005. He is one of the top scientists in Japan and renowned as he had established a new therapy using regenerated cardiomyocytes obtained from stem cells.