Dedications

Preface

Contributors

Part I: Stem Cells for and from the CNS: Their Source and Fundamental Properties

Sources of Cells for CNS Therapy

Melissa K. Carpenter

Mark Mattson

Mahendra S. Rao

Neural Stem Cells and Their Plasticity

Angela Gritti

Angelo Vescovi

Rossella Galli

Identification, Selection, and Use of Adult Human Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells

Martha Windrem

Neeta Roy

Marta Nunes

Steven A. Goldman

Generation, Characterization, and Transplantation of Immortalized Human Neural Crest Stem Cells

Eiji Nakagawa

Kozo Hatori

Atsushi Nagai

Hyun B. Choi

Myung A. Lee

Jung H. Bang

Jean Kim

Jae K. Ryu

Akihiko Ozaki

Min C. Lee

Evan Y. Snyder

Seung U. Kim

The Search for Neural Progenitors in Bone Marrow and Umbilical Cord Blood

Shijie Song

Paul Sanberg

Juan Sanchez-Ramos

Part II: In Vitro and / or In Vivo Manipulations of Stem / Progenitor Cells for the CNS

Signal Transduction Pathways That Regulate Neural Stem Cell Division and Differentiation

Luciano Conti

Elena Cattaneo

Neural Stem/Progenitor Cell Clones or ``Neurospheres'': A Model for Understanding Neuromorphogenesis

Dennis A. Steindler

Bjorn Scheffler

Eric D. Laywell

Oleg N. Suslov

Tong Zheng

Thomas Reiniger

Valery G. Kukekov

Neural Stem Cells and Specification of Cell Fates: Biological and Therapeutical Perspectives

Marcel M. Daadi

Manipulation of Neural Precursors In Situ: Potential for Brain Self-Repair

Sanjay S. P. Magavi

Jeffrey D. Macklis

Neural Stem Cells in the Adult Hippocampus

Jasodhara Ray

Daniel A. Peterson

Part III: Stem / Progenitor Cells in Representative Therapeutic Paradigms for The CNS

Global Gene and Cell Replacement Strategies via Stem Cells

Kook In Park

James J. Palacino

Roseanne Taylor

Karen S. Aboody

Barbara A. Tate

Vaclav Ourednik

Jitka Ourednik

Mahesh Lachyankar

Evan Y. Snyder

Neural Stem Cells in and from the Spinal Cord

Yang D. Teng

Mary Katherine C. White

Erin Lavik

Shaoxiang Liu

Mahesh Lachyankar

Kook In Park

Evan Y. Snyder

Stem Cells for Spinal Cord Injury

Paul Lu

Evan Y. Snyder

Mark H. Tuszynski

Spinal Ischemia-Induced Paraplegia: A Potential Therapeutical Role of Spinally Grafted Neural Precursors and Human hNT Neurons

Martin Marsala

Osamu Kakinohana

Tony L. Yaksh

Joho Tokumine

Utilization of Marrow Stromal Cells for Gene Transfer into the CNS

S. Ausim Azizi

Emily J. Schwarz

Darwin Prockop

Guillermo Alexander

Katherine A. Mortati

Barbara Krynska

Preclinical Basis for Use of NT2N Cells in Neural Transplantation Therapy

Cesario V. Borlongan

Paul R. Sanberg

Index