Human stem cell technology and biology: a research guide and laboratory manual

INDICE: Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Editors and Contributors. SECTION I: INTRODUCTION. 1 Introduction to Pluripotent Stem Cells: Biology and Applications (Maria Borowski and Gary S. Stein). 2 Researching and Obtaining Established Stem Cell Lines (Mai X. Luong, Kelly P. Smith, and Gary S. Stein). SECTION II: LABORATORY GUIDE FOR HUMAN STEM CELL CULTURE: PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL CULTURE. 3 Basics of Cell Culture (Alicia Allaire, Mai X. Luong, and Kelly P. Smith). 4 The Stem Cell Laboratory (Alicia Allaire, Mai X. Luong, and Kelly P. Smith). 5 Reagent Preparation (Alicia Allaire, Mai X. Luong, and Kelly P. Smith). 6 Preparation of Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts for Culture of Human EmbryonicStem Cells (Meng-Jiao Shi, Maria Borowski, and Kimberly Stencel). 7 Thawing and Seeding of Frozen Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts (Meng-Jiao Shi, Maria Borowski, and Kimberly Stencel). 8 Thawing, Seeding, and Changing the Medium of HumanEmbryonic Stem Cells (Meng-Jiao Shi, Kimberly Stencel, and Maria Borowski). 9Passaging of Human Embryonic Stem Cells on Inactivated Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast Plates (Meng-Jiao Shi, Kimberly Stencel, and Maria Borowski). 10 Harvesting Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Cryopreservation (Meng-Jiao Shi, Kimberly Stencel, and Maria Borowski). 11 Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture on BD Matrigelwith mTeSR1 Medium (Meng-Jiao Shi, Kimberly Stencel, and Maria Borowski). SECTION III: LABORATORY GUIDE FOR HUMAN STEM CELL CULTURE: CHARACTERIZATION OF PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS. 12 Defining Pluripotency (Kelly P. Smith and Mai X. Luong). 13 Characterization of Human Embryonic Stem Cells by Immunofluorescence Microscopy (Shirwin M. Pockwinse and Prachi N. Ghule). 14 Preparation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Samples for Flow Cytometry (Meng-Jiao Shi, Kimberly Stencel, and Maria Borowski). 15 Characterization of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Gene Expression Using Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (Alicia Allaire, Kelly P. Smith, and Mai X. Luong). 16 Determining Pluripotency of Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Embryoid Body Formation (Shirwin M. Pockwinse and Prachi N.Ghule). 17 Characterization of Human Embryonic Stem Cells by Cytogenetics: Karyotyping and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (Shirwin M. Pockwinse, PrachiN. Ghule and Anne Higgins). 18 High-Resolution Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Assay (Beatriz Perez-Cadah1a, Bojan Drobic, and James R. Davie). 19 Assaying Pluripotency Via Teratoma Formation (M. William Lensch and Tan A. Ince). SECTION IV: PERSPECTIVES IN HUMAN STEM CELL TECHNOLOGIES. 20 Genomic Analysis of Pluripotent Stem Cells (David Lapointe). 21 Proteomic Analysis of Human Pluripotent Cells (Andy T. Y. Lau, Yan-Ming Xu, and Jen-Fu Chiu). 22 Bioinformatics Strategies for Understanding Gene Expression in Human Pluripotent Cells (Gustavo Glusman, Bruz Marzolf, Kai Wang, Ji-Hoon Cho, Burak Kutlu, and Qiang Tian). 23Epigenetic Analysis of Pluripotent Cells (Mojgan Rastegar, Genev

• ISBN: 978-0-470-59545-9
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 440
• Fecha Publicación: 17/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés