Cell Therapy : Current Status and Future Directions

This volume provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of the field of cell therapy.  The volume begins with overviews of imaging technologies with an emphasis on CNS and peripheral applications highlighting how these technologies can aid in both safety and efficacy evaluations. The book then turns to numerous contributions detailing the rapidly growing field of stem cell therapies. These sections cover our understanding of the natural roles of stem cells in biology and human disease and then touches on several of the more prominent areas where stem cells are moving rapidly into clinical evaluation including neurodegenerative diseases, cardiac repair, and diabetes. The volume concludes with contributions from experts in oncology, stem cells, and biomaterials where the convergence of expertise is leading to unprecedented insights into how to minutely control the in vivo fate and function of transplanted and/or endogeneously mobilized cells.