Stem Cells : From Hydra to Man

Here is evidence that there is more than human and mouse stem cells to learn from. Reflecting the enormous growth in our knowledge of stem cells, the book presents the subject's conceptual language as well as a summary of the advances in our understanding.

1. Plant Stem Cells: Divide et Impera, Jan U. Lohmann; 2. Stem Cell System of Sponge, Noriko Funayama; 3. Stem Cells in Immortal Hydra, Thomas C.G. Bosch; 4. Stem cells in planarian, Kiokazu Agata; 5. The Stem Cell System of the Basal Flatworm Macrostomum lignano, Peter Ladurner, Berngard Egger, Katrien De Mulder, Daniela Pfister, Georg Kuales, Will Salvenmoser, and Lukas Schärer; 6. Regeneration and Stem Cells in Ascidians, Stefano Tiozzo, Federico D. Brown, and Anthony William De Tomaso; 7. In vitro Control of Organogenesis by ActivinA Treatment of Amphibian and Mouse Stem Cells, Makoto Asashima, Akira Kurisaki, and Tatsuo Michiue; 8. Melanocyte stem cells: an excellent model to study stem cell biology, Masatake Osawa, Kiyotaka Hasegawa, Mariko Moriyama, and Shin-Ichi-Nishikawa; 9. In vitro hESC Technology: State of the Art and Future Perspectives, William Lathrop Rust; 10. Tumor Stem Cells: How to Define Them and How to Find Them? Ibrahim Alkatout and Holger Kalthoff; Subject Index.