Bookedited by Michael S. Goligorsky.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Glomerulogenesis and De Novo Nephrogenesis in Medaka Fish: An Evolutionary Approach / Hisashi Hashimoto, Yuko Wakamatsu
Chapter 2. Renal Organogenesis: Growing a Replacement Kidney In Situ from Transplanted Renal Primordia / Marc R. Hammerman
Chapter 3. Use of Genetic Mouse Models to Study Kidney Regeneration / Akio Kobayashi, Jeremy S. Duffield
Chapter 4. Endogenous Anti-inflammatory and Proresolving Lipid Mediators in Renal Disease / Charles N. Serhan, Catherine Godson
Chapter 5. Tissue Protection and Regeneration Aided by Erythropoietin and Erythropoietin-derived Peptides / Danilo Fliser
Chapter 6. Mast Cells in Kidney Regeneration / Eric Daugas, Walid Beghdadi, Ulrich Blank
Chapter 7. Role of Macrophages in Renal Injury, Repair and Regeneration / Vincent Lee, Qi Cao, Yiping Wang, David C.H. Harris
Chapter 8. T-cell Contribution to Injury and Regenerative Processes in Kidney Diseases: Focus on Regulatory T Cells / Hye Ryoun Jang, Hamid Rabb
Chapter 9. Mesenchymal Stem Cells / Benjamin D. Humphreys, Joseph V. Bonventre
Chapter 10. Endothelial Progenitor Cells and the Kidney / Matthieu Monge, Anton Jan van Zonneveld, Ton J. Rabelink
Chapter 11. Potential of the Side Population in Regenerative Nephrology / M.H. Little, G.A. Challen
Chapter 12. Very Small Embryonic-like Stem Cells and Their Potential Relevance for Kidney Homeostasis / Dong-Myung Shin, Rui Liu, Przemyslaw Nowacki, Janina Ratajczak, Magda Kucia, Mariusz Z. Ratajczak
Chapter 13. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / Kenji Osafune, Shinya Yamanaka
Chapter 14. Methods of Isolation and Culture of Adult Stem Cells / Lindolfo da Silva Meirelles, Nance Beyer Nardi
Chapter 15. Stem Cell Niche in the Kidney / Laura Lasagni, Elena Lazzeri, Paola Romagnani
Chapter 16. Bioartificial Stem Cell Niches: Engineering a Regenerative Microenvironment / Glenn D. Prestwich, Tammer Ghaly, Philip Brudnicki, Brian Ratliff, Michael S. Goligorsky
Chapter 17. Imaging of Transplanted and Native Stem Cells / Xiang-Yang Zhu, Martin Rodriguez-Porcel, Lilach O. Lerman
Chapter 18. Stem Cell Injury and Premature Senescence / Michael S. Goligorsky
Chapter 19. Regeneration and Aging: Regulation by Sirtuins and the NAD+ Salvage Pathway / Nica M. Borradaile, Alanna Watson, J. Geoffrey Pickering
Chapter 20. Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Organ Repair and Strategies to Optimize their Efficacy / Christodoulos Xinaris, Barbara Imberti, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Marina Morigi
Chapter 21. Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury with Allogeneic Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Preclinical and Initial Clinical Data / Florian E. Tögel, Christof Westenfelder
Chapter 22. Clinical Trials in Renal Regenerative Medicine / Maarten B. Rookmaaker, Jaap A. Joles, Marianne C. Verhaar
Chapter 23. Potential Risks of Stem Cell Therapies / Uta Kunter, Jürgen Floege
Chapter 24. Tissue Engineering in Urology / Anthony Atala
Chapter 25. Ethics in Regenerative Medicine / Svetlana Gavrilov, Donald W. Landry
Chapter 26. Stem Cell Banking / Vicente Mirabet, Pilar Solves.