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Progression of chronic diseases in general and chronic kidney disease in particular has been traditionally viewed in the light of various contributors to development of gl… Read more
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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Progression of chronic diseases in general and chronic kidney disease in particular has been traditionally viewed in the light of various contributors to development of glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial scarring culminating in renal fibrosis. Indeed, this dogma prevailed for decades underscoring experimental attempts to halt fibrotic processes. Breakthrough investigations of the past few years on stem/progenitor cell involvement in organ regeneration caused a conceptual shift in tackling the mechanisms of nephrosclerosis. It has become clear that the rate of progression of chronic kidney disease is the net sum of the opposing trends: degenerative fibrotic processes and regenerative repair mechanisms. The latter part of this equation has been by and large ignored for years and only recently attracted investigative attention. This book revisits the problem of kidney disease by focusing on regenerative mechanisms in renal repair and on the ways these regenerative processes can become subverted by an intrinsic disease process eventuating in its progression. Cutting-edge investigations are summarized by the most experienced international team of experts.
Medical and pharmaceutical researchers in nephrology and related renal diseases; fellows and academic clinicians in nephrology; biomedical researchers who work with stem cells
PHYLOGENY AND ONTOGENY OF TISSUE REGENERATION
1. Glomerulogenesis and de novo nephrogenesis in medaka fish - evolutionary approach
Yuko Wakamatsu and Hisashi Hashimoto
2. Renal Organogenesis: Growing a replacement kidney in situ from transplanted renal primordia
Marc R. Hammerman
3. Use of Genetic Mouse Models to study Kidney Regeneration
Akio Kobayashi and Jeremy S. Duffield
MEDIATORS OF REGENERATION
4. Endogenous Anti-Inflammatory and Pro-Resolving Lipid Mediators in Renal Disease
Charles N. Serhan and Catherine Godson
5. Tissue protection and regeneration aided by erythropoietin and erythropoietin-derived peptides
Danilo Fliser
6. Mast cells in kidney regeneration
Eric Daugas, Walid Beghdadi and Ulrich Blank
7. Role of macrophages in renal injury, repair and regeneration
Vincent Lee, Qi Cao, Yiping Wang and David C.H. Harris
8. T-cells contribution to regenerative processes
Hamid Rabb
STEM CELLS IN REGENERATIVE PROCESSES
9. MSC and reparative processes
Benjamin D. Humphreys and John V. Bonventre
10. Stem cells in regenerative processes: Endothelial progenitor cells and the kidney
Matthieu Monge, Anton J. van Zonneveld and Ton J. Rabelink
11. The potential of the side population in regenerative nephrology
Melissa H. Little and G. A. Challen
12. Very small embryonic like stem cells (VSELs) and their potential relevance for kidney homeostasis
Dong-Myung Shin, Rui Liu, Janina Ratajczak, Magda Kucia and Mariusz Z. Ratajczak
13. Stem Cells in Regenerative Processes; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Kenji Osafune and Shinya Yamanaka
14. Methods of Isolation and Culture of Adult Stem cells
Lindolfo da Silva Meirelles and Nance Beyer Nardi
STEM CELLS - FROM THE NICHE TO REPAIR
15. Stem cell niche in the kidney
Laura Lasagni, Elena Lazzeri and Paola Romagnani
16. Creation of artificial niches
Glenn D. Prestwich, Tammer Ghaly, Philip Brudnicki, Brian Ratliff and Michael S. Goligorsky
17. Imaging of transplanted and native stem cells
Xiang-Yang Zhu, Martin Rodriguez-Porcel and Lilach O. Lerman
CAUSES OF REGENERATIVE FAILURE
16. Stem cell injury and premature senescence
Michael S. Goligorsky
17. Regeneration and Aging: Regulation by Sirtuins and the NAD+ Salvage Pathway
Nica M. Borradaile, Alanna Watson, and J. Geoffrey Pickering
18. Bone marrow-mesenchymal stem cells in organ repair and strategies to optimize their efficacy
Christodoulos Xinaris, Barbara Imberti, Giuseppe Remuzzi and Marina Morigi
EMERGING CLINICAL ASPECTS OF STEM CELL THERAPY
19. Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury with allogeneic Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Preclinical and initial Clinical Data
Florian E. Tögel and Christof Westenfelder
20. Clinical trials in Renal Regenerative Medicine
Maarten B. Rookmaaker, Jaap A. Joles and Marianne C. Verhaar
21. Potential risks of stem cell therapies
Uta Kunter and Jürgen Floege
22. Tissue engineering in urology
Anthony Atala
23. Ethical issues in SC therapy
Donald W. Landry
24. Stem Cell Banking
Vicente Mirabet and Pilar Solves
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