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Title

Neural development and stem cells / edited by Mahendra S. Rao.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Rao, Mahendra S.

Description

x, 454 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

"For this new edition of his work, Mahendra S. Rao, has assembled a panel of leading experts to expand and update his Stem Cells and CNS Development to reflect the enormous increase in our knowledge of the development of the nervous system. Working from a new understanding that the regionalization of stem cells occurs early in development and that this bias appears to persist even after prolonged culture, Dr. Rao has added additional chapters on olfactory epithelial stem cells and retinal stem cells, both of which differ in their properties from ventricular zone and subventricular zone-derived neural stem cells. A new chapter on cell death summarizes the important changes in the death pathway that occur as stem cells mature. Special attention is paid to the derivation of neural cells from embryonic stem cells. All chapters from the first edition have been extensively revised and updated. Appendices provide information on neural stem cell companies, stem cells and transplants, patents and stem cells, and US federal government guidelines on stem cells." "Wide-ranging and up-to-date, Neural Development and Stem Cells, Second Edition provides neuroscientists with an authoritative guide to stem cells in the nervous system, tracing with great clarity the development of stem cells from differentiation to neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Contemporary neuroscience

Uniform Title

Contemporary neuroscience.

Subjects

• Cellules souches
• Developmental neurobiology
• Neurologie du développement
• Neurons > growth & development
• Stem Cells
• Stem cells

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Defining neural stem cells and their role in normal development of the nervous system / Sally Temple -- 2. Neural stem cells in the adult brain : implications of their glial characteristics / Daniel A. Lim and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla -- 3. Cellular and molecular properties of multipotent neural stem cells throughout ontogeny / Larysa Halyna Pevny -- 4. Multipotent stem cells in the embryonic nervous system / Ali Jalali, Michael Bonaguidi, Caitilin Hamill and John A. Kessler -- 5. Regulation of neural stem cell death / Rizwan S. Akhtar and Kevin A. Roth -- 6. Neuronal progenitor cells of the mammalian neonatal anterior subventricular Zone / Douglas L. Falls and Marla B. Luskin -- 7. Glial restricted precursors / Mark Noble and Margot Mayer-Proschel -- 8. PNS precursor cells in development and cancer / Houman D. Hemmati, Tanya A. Moreno and Marianne Bronner-Fraser -- 9. Stem cells of the adult olfactory epithelium / James E. Schwob and Woochan Jang -- 10. Retinal stem cells / Ani V. Das, Jackson James, Sreekumaran Edakkot and Iqbal Ahmad -- 11. Transdifferentiation in the nervous system / Ying Liu and Mahendra S. Rao -- 12. Neural progenitor cells of the adult human brain / Steven A. Goldman -- 13. Embryonic stem cells and neurogenesis / Robin L. Wesselschmidt and John W. McDonald -- 14. Mobilizing of neural precursors in the adult central nervous system / Theo D. Palmer and Fred H. Gage -- 15. Neural stem cells and transplant therapy : intrinsic programs and clinical applications / Jaime Imitola, Yang D. Teng, Vaclav Ourednik, Kook In Park, Richard L. Sidman and Evan Y. Snyder -- App. A. Neural stem cell companies -- App. B. Stem cells and transplants -- App. C. Patents and stem cells -- App. D. Stem cells and US federal guidelines.

ISBN

1588294811 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004024052

OCLC

• ocm56752881
• SCSB-5220946

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries