
Cellular Therapy
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 18. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 180 pages
978-3-662-03511-5 (ISBN)
Description
The use of cells for the treatment of a variety of diseases is no longer a dream. Today, blood transfusion, bone marrow transplantation, the use of ex vivo cultured skin in wound healing, and peripheral stern cell transplantation, including the ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stern cells after high-dose chemo/radiation therapy, are routine. This high standard of knowledge and skills in cell transplantation might also re sult in tackling hitherto untreatable diseases. Organ transplantation is presently the only life-saving treatment for a variety of conditions. Important findings in cell and molecular biol ogy, the identification of hematopoietic, mesenchymal and neuronal stern cells, together with breakthroughs in the methodology for isolat ing, purifying, expanding, and storing human cells could make cellular therapy an alternative to organ transplantation in certain diseases within the next decade. Placental blood may be the source of choice in isolating naive progenitor cells for allogeneic transplantation. Immunotherapy is the most hopeful strategy to date for the treat ment of tumors resistant to chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or hor mone therapy. It includes the use of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, ex vivo activated memory T lymphocytes, and cell-based vaccines.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
30 s/w Abbildungen
XII, 180 p. 30 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
261 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-662-03511-5 (9783662035115)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-03509-2
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H. Wekerle | H. Graf | J.D. Turner
Cellular Therapy
E-Book
06/2013
Springer
€53.49
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H. Wekerle | H. Graf | J.D. Turner
Cellular Therapy
Book
09/1997
Springer
€85.59
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Content
1 Somatic Gene Therapy in Cancer.- 2 Placental Blood: New Options in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.- 3 Recent Developments in the Ex Vivo Manipulation of Hematopoietic Cells from Bone Marrow and Blood.- 4 Monocyte-Derived Cells in Adoptive Immunotherapy of Cancer: Facts and Perspectives.- 5 The Immunological Basis for the Development of Tumor Cell- and Peptide-Based Vaccines for Treatment of Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma.- 6 Transplantation of Isolated Islets of Langerhans as Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus.- 7 Potential Use of Marrow Stromal Cells for Therapy of Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Osteoporosis.- 8 Neuronal Modulation of the Immune Response in Nervous Tissue: Implications for Neurodegenerative and Autoimmune Diseases.- 9 Transplantation of Dopamine-Synthesizing Cells in Parkinson's Disease: Experimental Data and Clinical Application.- 10 Repairing CNS Demyelination by Glial Cell Transplantation.- 11 Monitoring of Suicide Gene Therapy with Positron Emission Tomography.- Previous Volumes Published in this Series.