Adult Stem Cell Therapies: Alternatives to Plasticity

.- 1 Regenerative Medicine and the Search for Pluripotent/Multipotent Stem Cells

.- Mariusz Z. Ratajczak

 

.- 2 Novel Therapeutic Approaches in Regenerative Medicine: Adult Tissue-Derived Very Small Embryonic like Stem Cells and Harnessing Paracrine Signals of Adult Stem Cells

.- Magda Kucia, Malwina Suszynska, Janina Ratajczak & Mariusz Z. Ratajczak

 

.- 3 Cord Blood Stem Cells

.- Marta Adamiak, Zbigniew Madeja and Ewa K. Zuba-Surma

 

.- 4 Human CD34-negative Hematopoietic Stem Cells

.- Yoshiaki Sonoda

 

.- 5 Cell Therapies in Cardiology

.- Wojciech Wojakowski, Agata Czekaj and Michal Tendera

 

.- 6 Mechanisms Regulating Trafficking of Stem Cells in Ischemic Heart Disease

.- Yuri Klyachkin, Ahmed Abdel-Latif

 

.- 7 Stem Cell Therapies in Neurology

.- Naoki Tajiri, Meaghan Staples, Sandra Acosta, Mibel Pabon, Travis Dailey, Yuji Kaneko, Cesar V. Borlongan

 

.- 8 Stem Cell Compartment in Acute Psychotic Syndromes

.- Jolanta Kucharska-Mazur, Jerzy Samochowiec

 

.- 9 Skin Regeneration and Circulating Stem Cells

.- Julia Borowczyk, Justyna Drukala

 

.- 10 Stem Cell Therapies in Neonatology

.- Boguslaw Machalinski

 

.- 11 Pluripotent Very Small Embryonic-like Stem Cells in Adult Mammalian Gonads

.- Deepa Bhartiya, Seema Parte, Hiren Patel, Sandhya Anand, Kalpana Sriraman, Pranesh Gunjal

 

.- 12 Molecular Signature of Very Small Embryonic Like Stem Cells

.- Hyunsook Kang, Jisun Lim, Jinbeom Heo, Jaeho Jeong, YongHwan Kim, Dong-Myung Shin

 

.- 13 Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Tissue/Organ Regeneration

.- Maria Chiara Deregibus, Alessandra Iavello, Ciro Tetta, Giovanni Camussi

 

.- 14 Extracellular Vesicles and Tissue Organ Regeneration

.- P. Quesenberry, J. Aliotta, M. Dooner, D. Chatterjee, B. Ramratnam, L. Goldberg, M. Del Tatto, M. Pereira, A. Sorokina, S. Wen

 

.- 15 Stem Cells in Infection and Sepsis

.- Tomasz Skirecki, Grazyna Hoser, Jerzy Kawiak.

Mariusz Z. Ratajczak, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sci. is a professor in the Department of Medicine and the director of the Developmental Biology Research Program and of the Research Flow and Sorting Core Facility at the University of Louisville's James Graham Brown Cancer Center. An internationally known specialist in the field of adult stem cell biology, his 2005 discovery of embryonic-like stem cells in adult bone marrow has potential to revolutionize the field of regenerative medicine. The discovery may lead to new treatments for heart disease, eye disease, diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders, as well as provide insight into the development of many forms of leukemia. Ratajczak earned his M.D. at the Pomeranian Medical University and his Ph.D. and D.Sci at the Center for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Warsaw, Poland. He completed fellowships at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Pennsylvania.