This volume explores novel concepts of pericyte biology. The present book is an attempt to describe the most recent developments in the area of pericyte biology which is one of the emergent hot topics in the field of molecular and cellular biology today. Here, we present a selected collection of detailed chapters on what we know so far about the pericytes. Together with its companion volumes Pericyte Biology in Different Organs and Pericyte Biology in Disease, Pericyte Biology - Novel Concepts presents a comprehensive update on the latest information and most novel functions attributed to pericytes. To those researchers newer to this area, it will be useful to have the background information on these cells' unique history. It will be invaluable for both advanced cell biology students as well as researchers in cell biology, stem cells and researchers or clinicians involved with specific diseases.

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Alexander Birbrair received his Bachelor's Biomedical degree from Santa Cruz State University in Brazil. He moved to North Carolina, where he finished his PhD in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Osvaldo Delbono. Then, he joined as a posdoc in Stem Cell Biology at Paul Frenette's laboratory at Albert Einstein School of Medicine. In 2016, he was appointed faculty at Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, where he started his own lab. His laboratory is interested in understanding how the cellular components of different tissues function and control disease progression. His group explores the roles of specific cell populations in the tissue microenvironment by using state-of-the-art techniques. In 2018, Alexander was elected affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC).

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Chapter 1 - Editorial preview Pericyte Biology: Development, Homeostasis and DiseaseChapter 2 - The NG2 Proteoglycan in Pericyte BiologyChapter 3 Pericytes for Therapeutic Bone RepairChapter 4 - Pericytes Biology in Zebrafish Chapter 5 - The Microvascular Pericyte: Approaches to Isolation, Characterization and CultivationChapter 6 Pericytes in veterinary species - prospective isolation, characterization and tissue regeneration potentialChapter 7 Pericytes in the Human Vocal Fold MucosaChapter 8 - Ca2+ signalling in pericytesChapter 9 - Pericytes derived from Human Pluripotent Stem CellsChapter 10 - Pericytes in Tissue EngineeringChapter 11 - Pericyte secretomeIndex