DESCRIPTION:
Perinatal Stem Cells, 2nd Edition builds on the first edition to provide an updated tutorial on perinatal stem cells, including stem cells harvested from the amniotic fluid, placenta, maternal blood supply, umbilical cord and Wharton""s Jelly. As in the first edition, coverage includes the underlying biology of each of the sources of pregnancy related stem cells, cell culture, and potential therapeutic uses, as well as insights on the impact of these stem cells from obstetricians and gynecologists, cardiologists, hematologists, tissue engineers, and cord blood bankers.
Normally discarded as medical waste, perinatal stem cells offer a powerful therapeutic tool box alternative to the controversial embryonic stem cells. Since publication of the first edition, a burgeoning commerical industry has developed around various sources of perinatal cells, and the second edition now includes an overview of this growing industry.
With contributions from some of the top academic stem cell laboratories in the United States as well as new chapters from international stem cell scientists, Perinatal Stem Cells presents an update on the cutting-edge research in the field while maintaining its signature clinical focus.
CONTENTS:
1. AMNIOTIC FLUID STEM CELLS
2. CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTS: PERINATAL STEM CELLS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
3. HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL DEVELOPMENT IN THE PLACENTA
4. PERINATAL MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL BANKING FOR UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
5. MAKING ORGAN AND STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION SAFER: THE ROLE OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS
6. WHARTON""S JELLY MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS AND IMMUNE MODULATION: REGENERATIVE MEDICINE MEETS TISSUE REPAIR
7. IMMUNOGENICITY VERSUS IMMUNOMODULATION OF PERINATAL STEM CELLS
8. THE TRANSLATIONAL POTENTIAL OF PERINATAL STEM CELLS IN CLINICAL MEDICINE: MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS
9. NEWBORN STEM CELLS: IDENTITY, FUNCTION, AND CLINICAL POTENTIAL
10. BIOMEDICAL POTENTIAL OF HUMAN PERINATAL STEM CELLS
11. PROGENITOR CELL THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
12. THE HUMAN AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE: A TISSUE WITH MULTIFACETED PROPERTIES AND DIFFERENT POTENTIAL CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
13. ADVANCES AND POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS OF HUMAN AMNION FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF LIVER DISEASE
14. AMNION-DERIVED CELLS FOR STROKE RESTORATIVE THERAPY
15. PREGNANCY-ACQUIRED FETAL PROGENITORS AS NATURAL CELL THERAPY
16. PERINATAL STEM CELLS: AN INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE
17. PATENT PROTECTION OF STEM CELL INNOVATIONS
18. INTERVIEW WITH FRANCES VERTER, FOUNDER OF PARENT""S GUIDE TO CORD BLOOD FOUNDATION
19. UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD BANKING: AN OBSTETRICIAN""S PERSPECTIVE
