Essential Stem Cell Methods

This is a fast-moving field, and these detailed methods will help drive advances in stem cell research. The editors have hand selected step-by-step methods from researchers with extensive reputations and expertise.

This volume, as part of the Reliable Lab Solutions series, delivers busy researchers a handy, time-saving source for the best methods and protocols in stem cells.

* Provides powerful research opportunities for those interested in perusing work in pluripotent stem cells, disease modeling, and other aspects of basic stem cell research

* Refines, organizes and updates popular methods from flagship series, Methods in Enzymology

*Highlights top downloads, enhanced with author tips and tricks and pitfalls to avoid

Section 1: Organ-Derived Stem Cells

1. Neural Stem Cell Isolation and Characterization
Rodney L. Rietze and Brent A. Reynolds
2. Neural Stem Cells and Their Manipulation Evan Snyder
3. Retinal Stem Cells
Thomas A. Reh and Andy J. Fischer
4. Dental Pulp Stem Cells
He Liu, Stan Gronthos and Songtao Shi
5. Spermatogonial Stem Cells
Jon M. Oatley and Ralph L. Brinster
6. Stem Cells in the Lung
Xiaoming Liu, Ryan R. Driskell and John F. Engelhardt
7. Pancreatic Cells and Their Progenitors
Seth J. Salpeter and Yuval Dor
8. Pluripotent Stem Cells from Germ Cells Candace L. Kerr, Michael J. Shamblott and John D. Gearhart
9. Amniotic Fluid and Placental Stem Cells Dawn M. Delo, Paolo De Coppi, Georg Bartsch, Jr. and Anthony Atala
10. Cord Blood Stem and Progenitor Cells Mervin C. Yoder
11. Purification of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using the Side Population
K.K. Lin and Margaret A. Goodell
12. Microarray Analysis of Stem Cells and Differentiation
Howard Y. Chang
13. Tissue Engineering Using Adult Stem Cells Daniel Eberli
14. Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering
Nicholas W. Marion and Jeremy J. Mao

Section II: Embryonic Stem Cells

15. Murine Embryonic Stem Cells
Andras Nagy and Kristina Vintersten
16. Human Embryo Culture
Amparo Mercader, Diana Valbuena and Carlos Simón
17. Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Douglas Melton
18. Characterization and Evaluation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Chunhui Xu
19. Feeder-Free Culture of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Michal Amit and Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor
20. Neural Stem Cells, Neurons, and Glia
Steven M. Pollard, Alex Benchoua and Sally Lowell
21. Hematopoietic Cells
Malcolm A.S. Moore, Jae-Hung Shieh and Gabsang Lee
22. Cardiomyocytes
Xiangzhong Yang, Xi-Min Guo, Chang-Yong Wang and X. Cindy Tian
23. Insulin-Producing Cells
Insa S. Schroeder, Gabriela Kania, Przemyslaw Blyszczuk
24. Transgene Expression and RNA Interference in Embryonic Stem Cells
Holm Zaehres and George Q. Daley
25. Lentiviral Vector-Mediated Gene Delivery into Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Michal Gropp and Benjamin Reubinoff
26. Engineering Embryonic Stem Cells with Recombinase Systems
Frank Schnütgen, A. Francis Stewart, Harald von Melchner and Konstantinos Anastassiadis
27. Tissue Engineering Using Embryonic Stem Cells Shahar Cohen, Lucy Leshanski and Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor

Robert Lanza, M.D. is currently Head of Astellas Global Regenerative Medicine, Chief Scientific Officer of AIRM and an adjunct professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Time magazine recognized him as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World, and Prospect magazine named him one of the Top 50 "World Thinkers. His research focuses on stem cells and their potential to provide therapies for some of the world's most deadly and debilitating conditions. He has hundreds of scientific publications and over 30 books, including definitive references in the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He is a former Fulbright Scholar, and studied with polio-pioneer Jonas Salk and Nobel laureates Gerald Edelman and Rodney Porter. He also worked closely (and co-authored a series of papers) with psychologist BF Skinner and heart transplant-pioneer Christiaan Barnard. Dr. Lanza received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was both a University Scholar and Benjamin Franklin Scholar. Lanza was part of the team that cloned the world's first human embryo, the first endangered species, and published the first-ever reports of pluripotent stem cell use in humans.