Adult stem cells / edited by Kursad Turksen.

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2004], ©2004.

xiii, 346 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Adult stem cell plasticity / William B. Slayton and Gerald J. Spangrude -- Spermatogonial stem cells / Dirk G. de Rooij -- Stem cells in skeletal muscle / Anna Polesskaya and Michael Rudnicki -- Gene therapy using muscle-derived stem cells / Christopher Chermansky, Johnny Huard, and Michael B. Chancellor -- Human dental pulp stem cells / Stan Gronthos ... [et al.] -- Epithelial stem/progenitor cells in thymus organogenesis / Hans-Reimer Rodewald -- Adult liver stem cells / William B. Coleman, Joe W. Grisham, and Nadia N. Malouf -- Endothelial progenitor cells / Takayuki Asahara and Jeffrey M. Isner -- Prostate epithelial stem cells / Anne T. Collins and David E. Neal -- Mammary epithelial stem cells / Elizabeth Anderson and Robert B. Clarke -- From marrow to brain / Josef Priller -- Adult retinal stem cells / Monica L. Vetter and Edward M. Levine -- Multipotentiality of iris pigment epithelial cells in vertebrate eye / Mitsuko Kosaka ... [et al.] -- Stem cell biology of the inner ear and potential therapeutic applications / Thomas R. Van De Water ... [et al.] -- Engineering the in vitro cellular microenvironment for the control and manipulation of adult stem cell responses / A. Khademhosseini and Peter W. Zandstra -- Stem cells as common ancestors / Darryl Shibata.