1. Assessing Muscle Stem Cell Clonal Complexity during Aging
Matthew T. Tierney, Michael J. Stec, and Alessandra Sacco
2. Simultaneous Isolation of Stem and Niche Cells of Skeletal Muscle: Applicability for Aging Studies
Eusebio Perdiguero, Victoria Moiseeva, and Pura Muñoz-Cánoves
3. Isolation and Culture of Individual Myofibers and Their Adjacent Muscle Stem Cells from Aged and Adult Skeletal Muscle
Sören S. Hüttner, Hellen E. Ahrens, Manuel Schmidt, Henriette Henze, Marie Juliane Jung, Svenja C. Schüler, and Julia von Maltzahn
4. Methods and Strategies for Procurement, Isolation, Characterization, and Assessment of Senescence of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Adipose Tissue
Meenakshi Gaur, Marek Dobke, and Victoria V. Lunyak
Stéphanie Nadeau, Anastasia Cheng, Inés Colmegna, and Francis Rodier
6. Adipogenic and Osteogenic Differentiation of In Vitro Aged Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Courtney R. Ogando, Gilda A. Barabino, and Yueh-Hsun Kevin Yang
7. Human Skeletal-Muscle-Derived Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cell Isolation and Growth Kinetics Analysis
Klemen Čamernik, Janja Marc, and Janja Zupan
8. Complete Assessment of Multilineage Differentiation Potential of Human Skeletal-Muscle-Derived Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells
Klemen Čamernik and Janja Zupan
9. Human Synovium-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Ex Vivo Analysis
Janja Zupan
10. 3D-Embedded Cell Cultures to Study Tendon Biology
Renate Gehwolf, Gabriel Spitzer, Andrea Wagner, Christine Lehner, Nadja Weissenbacher, Herbert Tempfer, and Andreas Traweger
11. Targeted, Amplicon-Based, Next-Generation Sequencing to Detect Age-Related Clonal Hematopoiesis
Brooke Snetsinger, Christina Ferrone, and Michael J. Rauh
12. Column Free Method for Isolation and Culture of C-Kit Positive Stem Cells from Atrial Explants
Sherin Saheera and Renuka R. Nair
13. Histological Assessment of Cre/loxP Genetic Recombination in the Aging Subventricular Zone of Nestin-CreERT2/Rosa26YFP Mice
Saad Omais, Nour N. Halaby, Karl John Habashy, Carine Jaafar, Anthony T. Bejjani, and Noël Ghanem
14. Infrared Spectroscopy and Imagıng in Stem Cells and Agıng Research
Ceren Aksoy and Feride Severcan
15. Use of U-STELA for Accurate Measurement of Extremely Short-Telomeres
Nedime Serakinci, Huseyin Cagsin, and Merdiye Mavis
16. Surface-Antigen-Based Identification of In Vitro Expanded Skeletal-Muscle-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells Using Flow Cytometry
Klemen Čamernik and Janja Zupan
17. Analysis of Stem Cells and Their Activity in Human Skeletal Muscles by Immunohistochemistry
Rasmus Jentoft Boutrup
18. Methods for Detection of Autophagy in Mammalian Cells
Bindu Singh and Sangeeta Bhaskar
19. Metabolomic and Proteomic Analyses of Mouse Primordial Germ Cells
Yohei Hayashi and Yasuhisa Matsui
20. Reprogramming of Aged Cells into Pluripotent Stem Cells by Nuclear Transfer
Dan-Ya Wu, Xia Zhang, and Yi-Liang Miao
21. Generation of Retinal Pigmented Epithelial (RPE) Cells for Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
Harshini Surendran, Reena J. Rathod, and Rajarshi Pal
22. Histopathological and Behavioral Assessments of Aging Effects on Stem Cell Transplants in an Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury
Jea-Young Lee, Roger Lin, Hung Nguyen, M. Grant Liska, Trenton Lippert, Yuji Kaneko, and Cesar V. Borlongan
23. 3D Age-Specific Mortality Trajectory: A Survival Analysis Protocol
Yuhui Lin
24. Isolation, Expansion, and Characterization of Wharton’s Jelly-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cell: Method to Identify Functional Passages for Experiments
Shuh-Wen Aung, Noor Hayaty Abu Kasim, and Thamil Selvee Ramasamy
25. CRISPR Base Editing in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Ya-Ju Chang, Christine L. Xu, Xuan Cui, Alexander G. Bassuk, Vinit B. Mahajan, Yi-Ting Tsai, and Stephen H. Tsang
This fully updated book collects protocols that reflect current investigations into how stem cell populations change during organismal aging. These methodologies are well-established and described in easy to follow fashion so as to be valuable for not only experts but novices in the ever-developing stem cell field. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and up-to-date, Stem Cells and Aging: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition serves as an ideal guide for all researchers working in this very active area of study.