An essential guide to cardiac cell therapy [[Textbook] /]
Emerson C. Perin, Guilherme V. Silva, James T. Willerson.
- Abingdon : Boca Raton, FL : Informa Healthcare ; Distributed within continental USA by Taylor & Francis, c2006.
- xiii, 194 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Understanding the basics of stem cells. What are stem cells and what do they do? / Emerson C. Perin / Guilherme V. Silva. The basics of embryonic stem cells in comparison to adult stem cells / Yong-Jian Geng. The basics of mesenchymal lineage progenitor cells / Silviu Itescu. The basics of endothelial progenitor cells / Carmen Urbich / Stefanie Dimmeler. Mechanistic insights into cardiac stem cell therapy from a histopathologic perspective / Renu Virmani / Frank D. Kolodgie / Elena Ladich. Understanding translational cardiac stem cell research. Large animal models of myocardial ischemia for cardiac cell therapy / Edie M. Oliveira / Franca Stedile Angeli. The basics of pathologic assessment in experimental models of stem cell therapy / Deborah Vela / L. Maximilian Buja / Silvio Litovsky. Clinical utilization of stem cells in cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular cell therapy overview : realistic targets in 2006 / Doris A. Taylor / Harald C. Ott. Overview of the clinical applications of stem cells in ischemic heart disease / Shuan R. Opie / Nabil Dib. Patients with end-stage ischemic heart failure : a growing target population for cardiac stem cell therapy / Pilar Jimenez-Quevedo / Ricardo Sanz / Javier Lopez. Stem cell delivery modalities / Guilherme V. Silva / Emerson C. Perin / Amanda C. Heinl-Green / Jonathan Clague / Eric W. Alton. Understanding the basics of clinical imaging for assessing stem cell therapy in the heart / Marco A. Costa / Theodore A. Bass. Clinical utilization of stem cell therapy in acute myocardial infarction / Francisco Fernandez-Aviles / Pedro L. Sanchez / Jose Alberto San Roman / Luis de la Fuente / Ana Sanchez / Manuel Gomez-Bueno / Javier Garcia-Sancho / Maria Jesus Penarrubia / Javier Garcia-Frade. Clinical utilization of skeletal myoblasts / Marco Valgimigli / Tomasz Siminiak / Maciej Kurpisz / Willem J. van der Giessen / Patrick W. Serruys. Angiogenesis and cell therapy for peripheral arterial disease / Veerappan Subramaniyam / Andrew Zurick / Arshed A. Quyyumi. Concerns regarding stem cell therapy from the clinical perspective / Arjun Deb / Noel Caplice.