Stem Cells and Cancer in Hepatology
From the Essentials to Application
- 1st Edition - May 18, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Yun-Wen Zheng
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 3 0 1 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 3 0 2 - 7
Stem Cells and Cancer in Hepatology: From the Essentials to Application offers basic scientists and clinicians in the fields of stem cells, hepatology and oncology an overview… Read more
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Request a sales quoteStem Cells and Cancer in Hepatology: From the Essentials to Application offers basic scientists and clinicians in the fields of stem cells, hepatology and oncology an overview of the interaction between liver biology, stem cells and cancer. It discusses how the liver performs regeneration and repair, the role stem cells play in these processes, and the mechanisms by which liver cancers are initiated and developed. As the field of stem cells and cancer stem cells in hepatology is new and dynamic, thus making it difficult for researchers and clinicians to understand the most relevant historic and novel studies, this volume addresses that challenge.
- Addresses both the basic and clinical perspectives of the topic, including sections on normal and cancer stem cells of the liver
- Provides coverage of the molecular mechanisms of liver development, the proliferation of hepatic progenitor cells during development, epithelial cell plasticity, generation of hepatocytes by transdifferentiation, liver tissue engineering, and more
- Presents a study of hepatic stem cells that will help readers understand critical events during development, stem cell differentiation towards functional liver cell fate, and tumor initiation
Basic scientists (graduates, postgraduates and research scholars) and clinicians in the field of stem cells, cancer stem cells, hepatology and oncology
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 18, 2018
- No. of pages (Paperback): 382
- No. of pages (eBook): 382
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128123010
- eBook ISBN: 9780128123027
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Yun-Wen Zheng
As a stem cell biologist, Dr. Zheng earned his PhD of Medical Science majoring in Physiology/Stem Cell Biology in the University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Medicine, Japan in 2003. From 2003 to present, he has been a team leader for liver and cancer stem cell researches. Dr. Zheng is interested in the identification and isolation of endoderm stem cells as well as liver stem cells in normal and cancer tissues from rodents and human sources; especially for hepatic primordial development and the microenvironment, and drug development, he is trying to generate chimera mouse and rat with humanized livers. Furthermore, for clinical application, he is investigating how to generate the hepatic organoids with cell-cell interactions from the same patient with somatic stem cells from the amnion tissue, umbilical cord and the same source iPS cells. He is also interested in understanding cellular reprogramming and trying cellular therapies, to converse one cell directly into another type in vitro and in vivo.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Advanced Gastroenterological Surgical Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan and Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine, School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Japan and Distinguished Medical Expert and Visiting Professor, Research Center of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Jiangsu University Hospital, ChinaRead Stem Cells and Cancer in Hepatology on ScienceDirect