1 Characterization and classification of stem cells, Ute Bissels, Yvonne Diener, Dominik Eckardt, Andreas Bosio -- 2 Human embryonic stem cells, Terri Gaskell, Mikael C.O. Englund and Johan Hyllner -- 3 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine, Luna Simona Pane, Ilaria My, Alessandra Moretti -- 4 Spermatogonial stem cells, Ilya Chuykin, Michael Stauske, Kaomei Guan -- 5 Hematopoietic stem cells, Jonathan Frampton -- 6 Cardiovascular stem cells, Christoph Brenner, Robert David and Wolfgang-Michael Franz -- 7 Neural stem cells, Yoko Arai, Wieland B. Huttner, and Federico Calegari -- 8 Liver stem cells, Tohru Itoh, Hinako M Takase, and Atsushi Miyajima -- 9 Intestinal stem cells in homeostasis and cancer, Sandhya Singh, M. Sasikala , G.V. Rao , D.Nageshwar Reddy -- 10 Cancer Stem Cells: Perspectives beyond immunophenotypes and markers, Sharmila A. Bapat -- 11 Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSC), Patrick Wuchter, Wolfgang Wagner, and Anthony D. Ho -- 12 Musculoskeletal stem cells, Juliane D. Glaeser, Biagio Saitta., Dmitriy Sheyn, and Hyun W. Bae -- 13 Pancreas-derived multipotent precursor, Fang-Xu Jiang & Grant Morahan -- 14 Adipose stromal/stem cells, Jie Li, Elizabeth C. Martin, Jeffrey M. Gimble -- 15 Direct programming, Frauke Hausburg and Robert David -- 16 Parthenogenesis, Suresh Dinkar Kharche and Bipul Kumar Jha -- Index.

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