Stem cells and aging : methods and protocols / edited by Kursad Turksen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Comprehensive hematopoietic stem cell isolation methods / Kyle Rector, Yi Liu, and Gary Van Zant -- Serial transplantation of bone marrow to test self-renewal capacity of hematopoietic stem cells in vivo / Charusheila Ramkumar, Rachel M. Gerstein, and Hong Zhang -- Mouse hematopoietic stem cell transplantation / Hui Cheng, Paulina H. Liang, and Tao Cheng -- Isolation, characterization, and transplantation of adult liver progenitor cells / Mladen I. Yovchev, Mariana D. Dabeva, and Michael Oertel -- Isolation of muscle-derived stem/progenitor cells based on adhesion characteristics to collagen-coated surfaces / Mitra Lavasani ... [and others] -- Human myoblasts from skeletal muscle biopsies in vitro culture preparations for morphological and cytochemical analyses at light and electron microscopy / Manuela Malatesta ... [and others] -- Cardiac stem cell senescence / Daniela Cesselli ... [and others] -- Isolation of mesenchymal stem cells from human bone and long-term cultivation under physiologic oxygen conditions / Sebastian Klepsch ... [and others] -- Methods for assessing effects of Wnt/[beta]-catenin signaling in senescence of mesenchymal stem cells / Hai-jie Wang and Yu-zhen Tan -- Intra-femoral injection of human mesenchymal stem cells / Sindhu T. Mohanty and Ilaria Bellantuono -- Tracking of replicative senescence in mesenchymal stem cells by colony-forming unit frequency / Anne Schellenberg, Hatim Hemeda, and Wolfgang Wagner -- Chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled by quantitative real-time PCR as a tool for analyzing epigenetic regulation of stem cell aging / Seunghee Lee, Ji-Won Jung, and Kyung-Sun Kang -- Quantitative fluorescence in situ hybridization on paraffin embedded tissue / Mario Ricciardi, Mauro Krampera, and Marco Chilosi.