‘Stem Cells: From Hydra to Man’ illustrates that there is more than human andmouse stem cells to learn from. Reflecting an enormous growth in the knowledge of stem cells in various organisms, the book presents the conceptual language and the nature of questions, as well as a summary of the advances in our understanding of stem cells from a comparative point of view that has resulted from the development of new technology and the development of novel model organisms over the past few decades. As such this book is largely a horizon analysisof a frontier rather than a retrospective. It presents an integrative approach to animal stem cells and covers the major contributions, tools and trends ina newly emerging field: comparative stem cell biology. Covers the major contributions, tools and trends in a newly emerging field: comparative stem cell biology Reveals many common themes utilized in the maintenance and differentiation of stem cells of apparently disparate organs in animal and plant models Promises new insights into how stem cells act to construct and maintain tissues, and to reveal how the diverse stem cell systems may have evolved INDICE: 1. Plant Stem Cells: Divide et Impera, J.U. Lohmann.- 2. Stem CellSystem of Sponge, N. Funayama.- 3. Stem Cells in Immortal Hydra, T.C.G. Bosch.- 4. Stem cells in planarian, K. Agata.- 5. The Stem Cell System of the BasalFlatworm Macrostomum lignano, P. Ladurner, B. Egger, K. De Mulder, D. Pfister, G. Kuales, W. Salvenmoser, L. Schärer.- 6. Regeneration and Stem Cells in Ascidians, S. Tiozzo, F.D. Brown, A.W. De Tomaso.- 7. In vitro Control of Organogenesis by ActivinA Treatment of Amphibian and Mouse Stem Cells, M. Asashima, A. Kurisaki, T. Michiue.- 8. Melanocyte stem cells: an excellent model to study stem cell biology, M. Osawa, K. Hasegawa, M. Moriyama, S-I. Nishikawa.- 9. In vitro hESC Technology: State of the Art and Future Perspectives, W.L. Rust.-10. Tumor Stem Cells: How to Define Them and How to Find Them? I. Alkatout, H. Kalthoff.- Subject Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-8273-3
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés