Includes bibliographical references and index.

Propagation and differentiation of human Wharton's jelly stem cells on three-dimensional nanofibrous scaffolds / Kalamegam Gauthaman [and five others] -- Composite electrospun nanofibers for influencing stem cell fate / Alessandro Polini [and three others] -- In vitro nanoparticle-mediated intracellular delivery into human adipose-derived stem cells / Rosario Sanchez-Martin [and three others] -- Screening of nanoparticle embryotoxicity using embryonic stem cells / Luisa Campagnolo [and four others] -- Peptide nanofiber scaffolds for multipotent stromal cell culturing / Seher Ustun [and three others] -- Patterned polymeric surfaces to study the influence of nanotopography on the growth and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells / Cristian Pablo Pennisi [and four others] -- Transduction of murine embryonic stem cells by magnetic nanoparticle-assisted lentiviral gene transfer / Sarah Rieck, Katrin Zimmermann, and Daniela Wenzel -- Lanthanide-based upconversion nanoparticles for connexin-targeted imaging in co-cultures / Sounderya Nagarajan and Yong Zhang -- Basic protocols to investigate hMSC behavior onto electrospun fibers / Marco A. Alvarez-Perez [and three others] -- General protocol for the culture of cells on plasma-coated electrospun scaffolds / A. Géraldine Guex [and four others] -- Mesenchymal stem cells and nano-structured surfaces / Yinghong Zhou [and three others] -- Chondrogenic differentiation of menstrual blood-derived stem cells on nanofibrous scaffolds / Somaieh Kazemnejad [and three others] -- Engineering of a 3D nanostructured scaffold made of functionalized self-assembling peptides and encapsulated neural stem cells / Carla Cunha, Silvia Panseri, and Fabrizio Gelain.