Part I- Culturing Neural Precursor Cells from Primary Tissue

1. Culturing Fetal Precursors Cells Using Free-Floating Serum-Free Conditions

Andrew Chojnacki and Samuel Weiss

2. In vitro Expansion of Foetal Neural Progenitors as Adherent Cell Lines

Steven M. Pollard

3. Isolate and Culture Precursor Cells from the Adult Periventricular Area

Chiara Cavazzin, Margherita Neri, and Angela Gritti

4. Culturing and Expansion of Precursor Cells from the Adult Hippocampus

Dhanisha J. Jhaveri, Boris W. Prosper, and Perry F. Bartlett

5. Isolate and Culture Neural Stem Cells from the Mouse Adult Spinal Cord

Jean-Philippe Hugnot

6. Culturing and Expansion of "Clinical Grade" Precursors Cells from the Foetal Human Central Nervous System

Maurizio Gelati, Daniela Profico, Massimo Projetti-Pensi, Gianmarco Muzi, Giada Sgaravizzi, and Angelo Luigi Vescovie

7. Isolating and Culturing of Precursor Cells from the Adult Human Brain

Florian A. Siebzehnrubl and Dennis A. Steindler

8. Isolation and Culture of Precursor Cells from the Adult Human Spinal Cord

Luc Bauchet, Nicolas Lonjon, Florence Vachiery-Lahave, Alain Boularan, Alain Privat, and Jean-Philippe Hugnot

9. Isolation and Enrichment of Defined Neural Cell Populations from Heterogeneous Neural Stem Cell Progeny

Hassan Azari

10. Isolation of Adult Stem Cells from the Human Olfactory Mucosa

François Féron, Chris Perry, Stéphane D. Girard, and Alan Mackay-Sim

Part II. Stem Cells vs Progenitor Cells

11. Enumerating Stem Cell Frequency - Neural Colony Forming Cell Assay

Sharon A. Louis and Carmen K. H. Mak

Part III. Purification of Stem and Progenitor Cells

12. Flow Cytometry of Neural Cells

Geoffrey W. Osborne

Part IV. Transplantation of Neural Progenitor Cells: Preclinical models

13. Neonatal Transplant in Hypoxic Injury

Tong Zheng and Michael D. Weiss

14. Isolation and Purification of Self Renewable Human Neural Stem Cells for Cell Therapy in Experimental Model of Ischemic Stroke

Ricardo L. Azevedo-Pereira and Marcel M. Daadi

15. Transplantation of Foetal Midbrain Dopamine Progenitors into a Rodent Model of Parkinson's Disease

Lachlan H. Thompson and Clare L. Parish

Part V. In vivo Identification of Neural Precursor Cells

16. Distribution of Neural Precursor Cells in Rodent Brain

Daniel G. Blackmore and Rodney L. Rietze

17. Identifying Neural Precursor Cells in the Adult Human Brain

Thomas I.H. Park, Henry J. Waldvogel, Johanna M. Montgomery, Edward W. Mee, Peter S. Bergin, Richard L.M. Faull, Mike Dragunow, and Maurice A. Curtis

Part VI. Clinical Application of Neural Precursor Cell Therapy

18. Clinical Trials for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury: Not So Simple

Alan Mackay-Sim and François Féron