Section I: Introduction
1. Current Thoughts on the Therapeutic Potential of Stem Cell
Pranela Rameshwar
Section II: Stem Cell Study in Lower Organism
2. A Unique FACS Method to Isolate Stem Cells in Planarian
Tetsutaro Hayashi and Kiyokazu Agata
3. Identification of Neural Stem Cells in the Drosophila Larval Brain
Mo Weng, Hideyuki Komori, and Cheng-Yu Lee
4. Generation and Staining of Intestinal Stem Cell Lineage in Adult Midgut
Shree Ram Singh, Manoj K. Mishra, Steven X. Hou, and Maduri Kango-Singh
Section III: Stem Cell Study in Murine and Human Model
5. Developing a Quantitative In Vivo Tissue Reconstitution Assay to Assess the Relative Potency of Candidate Populations of Mouse Oesophageal Epithelial Cells
Daniel Croagh, Rick Redvers, Wayne A. Phillips, and Pritinder Kaur
6. Identification, Isolation, and Culture of Intestinal Epithelial Stem Cells from Murine Intestine
Gracz, A.D., Puthoff, B.J., Magness, S.T.
7. Isolation and Characterization of Distal Lung Progenitor Cells
Barbara Driscoll, Alex Kikuchi, Allison N. Lau, Jooeun Lee, Raghava Reddy, Edwin Jesudason, Carla F. Kim,
David Warburton
8. Transplantation of Mouse Fetal Liver Cells for Analyzing the Function of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells
Kristbjorn Orri Gudmundsson, Steven W. Stull, and Jonathan R. Keller
9. Convenient and Efficient Enrichment of the CD133+ Liver Cells From Rat Fetal Liver as a Source of Liver Stem/Progenitor Cells
Weihui Liu, Nan You, Kefeng Dou
10. Assessing the Potential Clinical Utility of Transplantations of Neural and Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases
Laurent Lescaudron, C.Boyer, Virginie Bonnamain, KD. Fink, X. Lévêque, J. Rossignol, V. Nerrière-Daguin, AC Malouet, F. Lelan, N.D Dey, D. Michel-Monigadon, M. Lu, I. Neveu, S. von Hörsten, P. Naveilhan and GL Dunbar
11. Functional Identification of Neural Stem Cell-Derived Oligodendrocytes
Sofia Grade, Fabienne Agasse, Liliana Bernardino, João O. Malva
12. Stem/Progenitor Cells in Murine Mammary Gland: Isolation and Functional Characterization
Abhik Bandyopadhyay, Qiaoxiang Dong and Lu-Zhe Sun
13. A Reporter Assay to Detect Transfer and Targeting of miRNAs in Stem Cell-Breast Cancer Co-Cultures
Steven J. Greco, Shyam A. Patel, Pranela Rameshwar
14. Isolation, Culture and Osteogenic/chondrogenic Differentiation of Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Susanne Grässel, Sabine Stöckl, Zsuzsa Jenei-Lanzl
15. Obtaining Freshly Isolated and Cultured Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Human Adipose Tissue
Andrew C. Boquest and Philippe Collas
16. Collection, Processing and Banking of Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells for Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine
Michael S. Badowski and David T. Harris
17. Generation of Functional Islets from Human Umbilical Cord and Placenta Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Sachin Kadam, Vijayendran Govindasamy, and Ramesh Bhonde
18. Isolation and Characterization of Human Prostate Stem/Progenitor Cells
Changyong Guo, Baohui Zhang, and Isla P. Garraway
19. Isolation and Expansion of Adult Cardiac Stem/Progenitor Cells in the Form of Cardiospheres from Human Cardiac Biopsies and Murine Hearts
Isotta Chimenti, Roberto Gaetani, Lucio Barile, Elvira Forte, Vittoria Ionta, Francesco Angelini, Giacomo Frati, Elisa Messina, Alessandro Giacomello.
20. Isolation and Differentiation of Human Cardiomyocyte Progenitor Cells Into Cardiomyocytes
Anke M. Smits, Angelique A. van Oorschot and Marie-José Goumans
21. Isolation, Expansion and Characterization of Human
