Includes bibliographical references and index.

Homing of stem cells and tissue injury / Ayelet Dar, Orit Kollet, Tsvee Lapidot -- Adult stem cell plasticity : lineage potential on a continuum / Peter J. Quesenberry, Gerald Colvin, Mehrdad Abedi -- Embryonic stem cells and cardiogenesis / Timothy J. Kamp, Gary E. Lyons -- Mesenchymal stem cell-derived cardiomyogenic cells / Keiichi Fukuda ... [et al.] -- Bone marrow cells and vascular growth / Takayuki Asahara -- Vascular progenitor cells and vessel repair / Kaushik Mandal, Marjan Jahangiri, Qingbo Xu -- Cardiac side population : phenotype and functional significance / Ronglih Liao, Frederic Mouquet, Otmar Pfister -- Phenotype and function of c-kit positive-derived amplifying myocytes / Rachel Wilson ... [et al.] -- Cardiac stem cells and their niches / Annarosa Leri ... [et al.] -- Activation of the local cardiac regenerative system / Antonia Germani, Federica Limana, Maurizio C. Capogrossi -- Embryonic stem cells and myocardial regeneration / Ahmad Y. Sheikh ... [et al.] -- Bone marrow-derived cells in myocardial repair and regeneration / Raj Kishore, Douglas W. Losordo -- Endothelial progenitor cells and the infarcted heart / Stefanie Dimmeler ... [et al.] --

Cytokines and heart remodeling / Issei Komuro, Hiroyuki Takano -- IGF-1, muscle progenitors and heart failure / Nadia Rosenthal, Nadine Winn, Maria Paola Santini -- Cardiac stem cells and the diabetic cardiomyopathy / Jan Kajstura ... [et al.] -- Stem cells and myocardial aging / Roberto Bolli, Piero Anversa -- Bioengineered scaffolds: myocytes, endothelial cells and cardiac repair / Vincent F.M. Segers, Richard T. Lee -- Gene therapy and cellular therapy in cardiac repair / Mark A. Sussman -- Cardiac stem cells and the failing heart / Piero Anversa ... [et al.] -- Myocardial infarction : risks and hope / Marc A. Pfeffer.

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