1. Cellular Cardiomyoplasty: Its Past, Present and Future
Elizabeth K. Lamb, Grace W. Kao, and Race L. Kao
2. Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells
Grace W. Kao, Elizabeth K. Lamb, and Race L. Kao
3. Bone Marrow Stem Cells
Minh Ngoc Duong, Yu-Ting Ma, and Ray C.J. Chiu
4. Adipose Tissue Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Isolation, Expansion and Characterization
Miriam Araña, Manuel Mazo, Pablo Aranda, Beatriz Pelacho and Felipe Prosper
5. Cardiac Side Population Cells and Sca-1-positive Cells
Toshio Nagai, Katsuhisa Matsuura, and Issei Komuro
6. Two Step Protocol for Isolation and Culture of Cardiospheres
Lijuan Chen, Yaohua Pan, Lan Zhang, Yingjie Wang, Neal Weintraub, and Yaoliang Tang
7. Generation of Human iPSCs From Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells using Non-Integrative Sendai Virus in Chemically Defined Conditions
Jared M. Churko, Paul W. Burridge, and Joseph C. Wu
8. Identification of Stem Cells after Transplantation
Yingjie Wang, Lan Zhang, Yaohua Pan, Lijuan Chen, Neal Weintraub, Yaoliang Tang
9. Methods to Study the Proliferation and Differentiation of Cardiac Side Population (CSP) Cells
Konstantina-Ioanna Sereti, Angelos Oikonomopoulos, Kazumasa Unno, and Ronglih Liao
10. Immune Responses After Mesenchymal Stem Cell Implantation
Rony Atoui and Ray C.J. Chiu
11. Route of Delivery, Cell Retention and Efficiency of Polymeric Microcapsules in Cellular Cardiomyoplasty
Alice Le Huu, Arghya Paul, Satya Prakash, and Dominique Shum-Tim
12. Angiogenic Nanodelivery Systems for Myocardial Therapy
Arghya Paul, Dominique Shum-Tim, and Satya Prakash
13. Bio-Hybrid Tissue Engineering for Cellular Cardiomyoplasty: Future Directions
Juan Carlos Chachques
14. Decellularized Whole Heart for Bioartificial Heart
Hug Aubin, Alexander Kranz, Jörn Hülsmann, Artur Lichtenberg, and Payam Akhyari
15.Clinical Trials of Cardiac Repair with Adult Bone Marrow-Derived Cells
Vinodh Jeevanantham, Mohammad R. Afzal, Ewa K. Zuba-Surma, and Buddhadeb Dawn
16. Clinical Study Using Adipose Derived Mesenchymal-like Stem Cells in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure
I.A. Panfilov, R. de Jong, S. Takashima, H.J. Duckers