Special Issue: Cancer stem cells and pluripotent/multipotent stem cells

CSCs and pluripotent/multipotent stem cells

A pathologist’s perspective on induced pluripotent stem cells

• Noriko Watanabe
• Katherine E Santostefano
• Naohiro Terada

Epigenetic foundations of pluripotent stem cells that recapitulate in vivo pluripotency

• Masaki Yagi
• Shinya Yamanaka
• Yasuhiro Yamada

The evolving concept of cancer stem-like cells in thyroid cancer and other solid tumors

• Heather Hardin
• Ranran Zhang
• Ricardo V Lloyd

Mechanism of human somatic reprogramming to iPS cell

• Rika Teshigawara
• Junkwon Cho
• Takashi Tada

Mesenchymal stem cells in obesity: insights for translational applications

• Kenichi Matsushita
• Victor J Dzau

Stem cell therapies for myocardial infarction in clinical trials: bioengineering and biomaterial aspects

• Akon Higuchi
• Nien-Ju Ku
• Kadarkarai Murugan

Efficient production of trophoblast lineage cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells

• Junya Kojima
• Atsushi Fukuda
• Hidenori Akutsu

A novel antibody against cancer stem cell biomarker, DCLK1-S, is potentially useful for assessing colon cancer risk after screening colonoscopy

• Shubhashish Sarkar
• Vsevolod L Popov
• Pomila Singh

Osteoblast-derived Laminin-332 is a novel negative regulator of osteoclastogenesis in bone microenvironments

• Norihisa Uehara
• Akiko Kukita
• Toshio Kukita

Notch signaling pathway and gene expression profiles during early in vitro differentiation of liver-derived mesenchymal stromal cells to osteoblasts

• Ksymena Urbanek
• Marta Lesiak
• Aleksander L Sieroń

Rapid generation of Col7a1^−/− mouse model of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa and partial rescue via immunosuppressive dermal mesenchymal stem cells

• Beau R Webber
• Kyle T O'Connor
• Jakub Tolar

Activation of pluripotent genes in hepatic progenitor cells in the transition of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis to pre-malignant lesions

• Gang Xu
• Juan Ye
• Jian Wu

NDGA-P21, a novel derivative of nordihydroguaiaretic acid, inhibits glioma cell proliferation and stemness

• Qi-Wen Zhao
• Yong Lin
• Xiu-Wu Bian