This book provides a comprehensive review of the properties of various stem cell types, the mechanisms of their behaviors and their potential clinical application. Stem cells have a great capacity of self-renewal and differentiation. They represent new paradigms for disease treatment in the field of regenerative medicine since the day they were discovered. As stem cell research is complicated a…
The term “stem cell” appeared in the scientifi c literature as early as 1868 in the work of the eminent German biologist Ernst Haeckel. In this work, Haeckel used the term Stammzelle (“stem cell”) to describe the ancestor unicellular organism from which he presumed all multicellular organisms evolved. Particularly, he also suggested fertilized oocytes as the source giving rise to al…