Stem Cell in Medicine

Preface Akon Higuchi, Yinghong Zhou and Shih-Hwa Chiou - Introduction to stem cells Zeyu Tian, Tao Yu, Jun Liu, Ting Wang, and Akon Higuchi - Engineered adult stem cells: current clinical trials status of disease treatment Pingping Han, Corey Stephan Moran, Chun Liu, Rebecca Griffiths, Yinghong Zhou, and SaSo Ivanovski - Xeno-free culture and proliferation of hPSCs on 2D biomaterials Ting Wang, Tao Yu, Chang-Yen Tsai, Zhao-Yu Hong, Wen-Hui Chao, Yi-Shuo Su, Suresh Kumar Subbiah, Remya Rajan Renuka, Shih-Tien Hsu, Gwo-Jang Wu, and Akon Higuchi - Stem cell culture and differentiation in 3-D scaffolds Yasuhiko Tabata, Idaszek Joanna, and Akon Higuchi - Current trends and promising clinical utility of IPSC-derived MSC (iMSC) Shih-Hwa Chiou, Alan Han Kiat Ong , Shih-Jie Chou, Ahmed Faris Aldoghachi, Jit Kai Loh, Nalini Devi Verusingam, Yi-Ping Yang, and Yueh Chien - Drug metabolic activity as a selection factor for pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatic progenitor cells Saeko Akiyama, Noriaki Saku, Shoko Miyata, Kenta Ite, Hidenori Nonaka, Masashi Toyoda, Akihide Kamiya, Tohru Kiyono, Tohru Kimura, Mureo Kasahara, and Akihiro Umezawa - Cardiac cell sheet engineering for regenerative medicine and tissue modeling Katsuhisa Matsuura and Tatsuya Shimizu - Mesenchymal stem cells in osteoarthritis: The need for translation into clinical therapy Feng Gao, Xinzhan Mao, and Xiaoxin Wu - hPSC-derived RPE transplantation for the treatment of macular degeneration Qian Liu, Jun Liu, and Akon Higuchi - Universal and hypoimmunogenic pluripotent stem cells for clinical usage Tzu-Cheng Sung, Kailibinuer Maitiruze, Jiandong Pan, Jian Gong, Yongheng Bai, Xiaodong Pan, and Akon Higuchi - Clinical Usage of Dental Stem Cells and Their Derived Extracellular Vesicles Yinghong Zhou, Tian Xu, Cong Wang, Pingping Han, and SaSo Ivanovski - Vascularization of cutaneous wounds by stem cells Motaharesadat Hosseini and Abbas Shafiee - Application of IPSC and Müller glia derivatives in retinal degenerative diseases Guoge Han, Pinghui Wei, and Quanhong Han - Pluripotent Stem Cells as a Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes Bernard E. Tuch, Iris S. Cheng, Hoang Phuc Dang, Hui Chen, and Tim R. Dargaville - Stem cell challenges and opportunities Kenta Ite, Masashi Toyoda, Saeko Akiyama, Shin Enosawa, Saeko Yoshioka, Takaaki Yukitake, Mayu Yamazaki-Inoue, Kuniko Tatsumi, Hidenori Akutsu, Hiroshi Nishina, Toru Kimura, Naoko Otani, Atsuko Nakazawa, Akinari Fukuda, Mureo Kasahara, and Akihiro Umezawa