Stem cells and tissue repair : methods and protocols / edited by Chrissa Kioussi, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Culturing and differentiating mouse embryonic stem cells / Axel P. Gross and Chrissa Kioussi -- Neural stem cell transplantation in an animal model of traumatic brain injury / Dimitra Thomaidou -- Experimental cell transplantation for traumatic spinal cord injury regeneration intramedullar or intrathecal administration / Ana Alastrue-Agudo [and six others] -- Generation of murine xenograft models of brain tumors from primary human tissue for in vivo analysis of the brain tumor-initiating cell / Maleeha Qazi [and six others] -- Growth of bone marrow and skeletal muscle side population stem cells in suspension culture / Christina A. Pacak and Douglas B. Cowan -- Isolation, culture and immunostaining of skeletal muscle fibres to study myogenic progression in satellite cells / Louise A. Moyle and Peter S. Zammit -- Human neural crest stem cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells / Qiuyue Liu, Andrzej Swistowski, and Xianmin Zeng -- Dental pulp stem cell (DPSC) isolation, characterization, and differentiation / Federico Ferro, Renza Spelat, and Chelsea S. Baheney -- Dental pulp stem cells isolation and osteogenic differentiation a good promise for tissue engineering / Adriana Di Benedetto, Claudia Carbone, and Giorgio Mori -- Efficient hepatic differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells in a three-dimensional microscale culture / Ran-Ran Zhang [and nine others] -- The generation and maintenance of rat induced pluripotent stem cells / Tomoyuki Yamaguchi, Sanae Hamanaka, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi -- Protocol for cutaneous wound healing assay in a murine model / Gitali Ganguli-Indra -- Adipose-derived stem cells methods for isolation and applications for clinical use / Brian Mailey [and seven others] -- In vitro detection of residual undifferentiated cells in retinal pigment epithelial cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells / Takuya Kuroda, Satoshi Yasuda, and Yoji Sato -- Whole-mount immunohistochemistry to study spermatogonial stem cells and spermatogenic lineage development in mice, monkeys, and humans / Kathrin Gassei, Hanna Valli, and Kyle E. Orwig -- Differentiating the stem cell pool of human hair follicle outer root sheath into functional melanocytes / Marie Schneider [and four others] -- Pancreas development ex vivo culturing embryonic pancreas explants on permeable culture inserts, with fibronectin-coated glass microwells, or embedded in three-dimensional Matrigel [trademark] / Hung Ping Shih and Maike Sander -- Ultra-rapid manufacturing of engineered epicardial substitute to regenerate cardiac tissue following acute ischemic injury / Vahid Serpooshan and Pilar Ruiz-Lozano.