Section I: Introduction

1. Current Thoughts on the Therapeutic Potential of Stem Cell

Pranela Rameshwar

Section II: Stem Cell Study in Lower Organism

2. A Unique FACS Method to Isolate Stem Cells in Planarian

Tetsutaro Hayashi and Kiyokazu Agata

3. Identification of Neural Stem Cells in the Drosophila Larval Brain

Mo Weng, Hideyuki Komori, and Cheng-Yu Lee

4. Generation and Staining of Intestinal Stem Cell Lineage in Adult Midgut

Shree Ram Singh, Manoj K. Mishra, Steven X. Hou, and Maduri Kango-Singh

Section III: Stem Cell Study in Murine and Human Model

5. Developing a Quantitative In Vivo Tissue Reconstitution Assay to Assess the Relative Potency of Candidate Populations of Mouse Oesophageal Epithelial Cells

Daniel Croagh, Rick Redvers, Wayne A. Phillips, and Pritinder Kaur

6. Identification, Isolation, and Culture of Intestinal Epithelial Stem Cells from Murine Intestine

Gracz, A.D., Puthoff, B.J., Magness, S.T.

7. Isolation and Characterization of Distal Lung Progenitor Cells

Barbara Driscoll, Alex Kikuchi, Allison N. Lau, Jooeun Lee, Raghava Reddy, Edwin Jesudason, Carla F. Kim,
David Warburton

8. Transplantation of Mouse Fetal Liver Cells for Analyzing the Function of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells

Kristbjorn Orri Gudmundsson, Steven W. Stull, and Jonathan R. Keller

9. Convenient and Efficient Enrichment of the CD133+ Liver Cells From Rat Fetal Liver as a Source of Liver Stem/Progenitor Cells

Weihui Liu, Nan You, Kefeng Dou

10. Assessing the Potential Clinical Utility of Transplantations of Neural and Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

Laurent Lescaudron, C.Boyer, Virginie Bonnamain, KD. Fink, X. Lévêque, J. Rossignol, V. Nerrière-Daguin, AC Malouet, F. Lelan, N.D Dey, D. Michel-Monigadon, M. Lu, I. Neveu, S. von Hörsten, P. Naveilhan and GL Dunbar

11. Functional Identification of Neural Stem Cell-Derived Oligodendrocytes

Sofia Grade, Fabienne Agasse, Liliana Bernardino, João O. Malva

12. Stem/Progenitor Cells in Murine Mammary Gland: Isolation and Functional Characterization

Abhik Bandyopadhyay, Qiaoxiang Dong and Lu-Zhe Sun

13. A Reporter Assay to Detect Transfer and Targeting of miRNAs in Stem Cell-Breast Cancer Co-Cultures

Steven J. Greco, Shyam A. Patel, Pranela Rameshwar

^{14. Isolation, Culture and Osteogenic/chondrogenic Differentiation of Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells}

^{Susanne Grässel, Sabine Stöckl, Zsuzsa Jenei-Lanzl}

^{15. Obtaining Freshly Isolated and Cultured Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Human Adipose Tissue}

^{Andrew C. Boquest and Philippe Collas}

^{16. Collection, Processing and Banking of Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells for Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine}

^{Michael S. Badowski and David T. Harris}

17. Generation of Functional Islets from Human Umbilical Cord and Placenta Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Sachin Kadam, Vijayendran Govindasamy, and Ramesh Bhonde

18. Isolation and Characterization of Human Prostate Stem/Progenitor Cells

Changyong Guo, Baohui Zhang, and Isla P. Garraway

19. Isolation and Expansion of Adult Cardiac Stem/Progenitor Cells in the Form of Cardiospheres from Human Cardiac Biopsies and Murine Hearts

Isotta Chimenti, Roberto Gaetani, Lucio Barile, Elvira Forte, Vittoria Ionta, Francesco Angelini, Giacomo Frati, Elisa Messina, Alessandro Giacomello.

20. Isolation and Differentiation of Human Cardiomyocyte Progenitor Cells Into Cardiomyocytes

Anke M. Smits, Angelique A. van Oorschot and Marie-José Goumans

21. Isolation, Expansion and Characterization of Human