PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Stem Cells--Are We Ready for Therapy?
Insa Schröder
2 Aurigon's Point of View on the Safety Assessment of Cell Based Therapies - An Experience Based on the Participation in 15 ATMPs Projects
Emmanuelle Cornali
PART II LIVER DISEASES
3 Pre-Conditioning of the Liver for Efficient Repopulation by Primary Hepatocyte Transplants
Petra Krause, Margret Rave-Fraenk, Hans Christiansen, Sarah Koenig
4 Age-Dependent Hepatocyte Transplantation for Functional Liver Tissue Reconstitution
Peggy Stock
5 Treatment of NASH with Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Immunodeficient Mouse
Sandra Winkler, Bruno Christ
6 The in vivo Evaluation of the Therapeutic Potential of Human Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Acute Liver Disease Takeshi Katsuda, Hayato Kurata, Rie Tamai, Agnieszka Banas, Tsuyoshi Ishii, Shumpei Ishikawa, and Takahiro Ochiya
7 A Mouse Model of Liver Injury to Evaluate Paracrine and Endocrine Effects of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Chiung-Kuei Huang, Soo Ok Lee, Jie Luo1, RongHao Wang, Qiang Dang, Chawnshang Chang
8 Animal Models to Test hiPS-Derived Hepatocytes in the Context of Inherited Metabolic Liver Diseases
Mathilde Dusséaux, Sylvie Darche and Hélène Strick-Marchand
9 Support of Hepatic Regeneration by Trophic Factors from Liver-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells
Suomi M.G. Fouraschen, Sean R.R. Hall, Jeroen de Jonge and Luc J.W. van der Laan
PART III CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
10 Assessment of Functional Competence of Endothelial Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells in Zebrafish Embryos
Valeria V. Orlova, Yvette Drabsch, Peter ten Dijke and Christine L. Mummery
11 Stem Cell Therapy for Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Innovative Techniques and Procedures for Pediatric Translational Research Jixin Yang, Yanwei Su and Gail E. Besner
12 Exploring Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Acute Kidney Injury
Stefania Bruno, Giovanni Camussi
13 Angiogenesic Properties of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Mouse Model of Limb Ischemia
Sang Won Han
14 Methods to Assess Intestinal Stem Cell Activity in Response to Microbes in Drosophila melanogaster
Philip L. Houtz and Nicolas Buchon
PART IV CONNECTIVE AND CONTRACTILE TISSUE
15 Muscle Pouch Implantation: An Ectopic Bone Formation Model
Greg Asatrian, Le Chang, Aaron W. James
16 Bone Defect Repair in Mice by Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Sanjay Kumar
17 Generation of Osteoporosis in Immune-Compromised Mice for Stem Cell Therapy Reeva Aggarwal, Vincent J. Pompili and Hiranmoy Das
18 Application of Stem Cells for the Treatment of Joint Disease in Horses
Walther Brehm, Janina Burk, Uta Delling
19 Adipogenic Fate Commitment of Muscle-Derived Progenitor Cells: Isolation, Culture and Differentiation
Anne-Marie Lau, Yu-Hua Tseng, and Tim J. Schulz
20 Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells for Muscle Regeneration
Johnny Kim and Thomas Braun
PART V NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES
21 Bone Marrow Stromal Stem Cells Transplantation in Mice with Acute Spinal Cord Injury
Virginie Neirinckx, Bernard Rogister, Rachelle Franzen, Sabine Wislet-Gendebien
22 Histological Characterisation and Quantification of Cellular Events Following Neural and Fibroblast(-Like) Stem Cell Grafting in Healthy and Demyelinated CNS Tissue
Jelle P
