Cardiac Regeneration

Edited and written by international experts in the field of regenerative medicine and biology Readers will learn about clinical imaging techniques and immune monitoring of cell grafts Pictures the different approaches for heart repair

Discusses the current promises and possibilities of cardiac regeneration

Autorentext
Maskai Ieda is Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Wolfram H. Zimmermann is Professor and Director of the Institute of Pharmacology, Heart Research Center Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany.

Inhalt
Imaging of Cell Grafts Past and Future of Cell based Heart Repair.- Progenitor Cells from the Adult Heart.- Epicardial Progenitors in the Embryonic and Adult Heart.- Cardiomyocyte Generation from human Pluripotent Stem Cells.- Derivation of Stroma Cells from human Pluripotent Stem Cells.- Direct Cardiac Programming.- Manufacturing of Therapeutic Cells.- Cardiac purification from iPSC-derived cell.- State-of-the-Art in Cardiomyocyte Transplantation.- State-of-the-Art in Tissue Engineering for Heart Repair.- Imaging of Cell Grafts.- Transplant Immunology.able.