Stem Cells in Reproductive Medicine

Preface; Foreword: views from a pioneer Alan Trounson; Part I. Female Gamete: 1. Genetics of the germline formation Orkan Ilbay and Emre Seli; 2. Germ cell differentiation from pluripotent cells Jose V. Medrano, Ana M. Martinez-Arroyo, Carlos Simon and Renee A. Reijo Pera; Part II. Male Gamete: 3. The male gamete Nicolas Garrido, Rocio Rivera and Marcos Meseguer; 4. In vitro production of functional sperm from neonatal mouse testes Takehiko Ogawa; 5. Adult stem cell population in the human testis Ellen Goossens and Herman Tournaye; Part III. The Embryo/Blastomere: 6. Meiotic recombination in human oocytes Jennifer R. Gruhn, Karl W. Broman, Patricia A. Hunt and Terry J. Hassold; 7. Gene expression dynamics during human embryonic development Carlos Simon and Renee A. Reijo Pera; 8. Embryonic stem cells from blastomeres maintaining embryo viability Irina Klimanskaya; 9. Gamete generation from stem cells to avoid gamete donation and customized hESC from blastomeres as the cellular insurance for the newborn: will it ever be ethically acceptable? Heidi Mertes and Guido Pennings; Part IV. Trophoblast, Amniotic Fluid, Endometrium and Bone Marrow: 10. Amniotic fluid and placental membranes: unexpected sources of highly multipotent cells Sean Vincent Murphy and Anthony Atala; 11. Adult stem cells in the human endometrium Caroline E. Gargett, Irene Cervello, Hong P. T. Nguyen and Carlos Simon; 12. In utero hematopoietic cell transplantation Amar Nijagal and Tippi C. MacKenzie; 13. Bone marrow stroma: a source of mesenchymal stem cells for cell therapy Agustin G. Zapata; Part V. New Developments in Stem Cell Research: 14. Dedifferentiation, transdifferentiation and reprogramming Sergio Mora and Angel Raya; 15. The metabolic framework of pluripotent stem cells and potential mechanisms of regulation Alexandra J. Harvey, Joy Rathjen and David K. Gardner; Index.