Preface...Table of Contents...Contributing Authors... 1. A Simple Protocol to Isolate, Characterize and Expand Dental Pulp Stem CellsFederica Di Scipio, Andrea Elio Sprio, Maria Elisabetta Carere, Zhiqian Yang, and Giovanni Nicolao Berta 2. Derivation of Mesenchymal Stem cells from Embryonic Stem Cells: A Non-Variable and Inexhaustive Source of Adult Stem CellsGlen Lester Sequiera, Niketa Sareen, Ejlal Abu Al-Rub, and Sanjiv Dhingra 3. Compact Bone-Derived Multipotent Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) for the Treatment of Sjogren's-Like Disease in NOD MiceGhada Abu Elghanam, Younan Liu, Saeed Khalili, Dongdong Fang, and Simon D.Tran 4. Manipulating the Proliferative Potential of Cardiomyocytes by Gene TransferGiulia Prosdocimo and Mauro Giacca 5. Assessment of Energy Metabolic Changes in Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem CellsGhazaleh Hajmousa and Martin C. Harmsen 6. Isolation and In Vitro Characterization of Epidermal Stem CellsKasper S. Moestrup, Marianne S. Andersen, and Kim B. Jensen 7. Endothelial Progenitor Cells: Procedure for Cell Isolation and CharacterizationGarikipati V.N. Srikanth, Zhongjian Cheng, and Raj Kishore 8. Therapeutic Application of Placental Mesenchymal Stem Cells Reprogrammed Neurospheres in Spinal Cord Injury of SCIDVikram Sabapathy, Franklin Jebaraj Herbert, and Sanjay Kumar 9. Therapeutic Application of Human Wharton Jelly Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Skin Injury of SCIDVikram Sabapathy, Balasubramanian Sundaram, and Sanjay Kumar 10. Isolation, Characterization, and Expansion of Cancer Stem CellsLuke A. Torre-Healy, Artem Berezovsky, and Justin D. Lathia 11. Cardiac Progenitor Cell Isolation from Human AuriclesPaolo Di Nardo and Francesca Pagliari 12. Isolation and Culture of Satellite Cells from Mouse Skeletal MuscleAntonio Musarò and Silvia Carosio 13. Isolation of Stromal Stem Cells from Adipose TissueMaria Prat, Francesca Oltolina, Silvia Antonini, and Andrea Zamperone 14. Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Mesencymal Stem Cells as an Individual-Specific and Renewable Source of Adult Stem Cells15. A Simplified and Systematic Method to Isolate, Culture and Characterize Multiple Types of Human Dental Stem Cells from a Single ToothMohammed Bakkar, Younan Liu , Dongdong Fang, Camille Stegen, Xinyun Su, Murali Ramamoorthi, Li-Chieh Lin, Takako Kawasaki, Nicholas Makhoul, Huan Pham, Yoshinori Sumita, and Simon D. Tran 16. Measurement of Autophagy by Flow CytometrySilvia Zappavigna, Angela Lombardi, Gabriella Misso, Anna Grimaldi, and Michele Caraglia 17. Echocardiography-Guided Intramyocardial Injection Method in a Murine ModelKay Maeda, Rick Seymour, Marc Ruel, and Erik J. Suuronen 18. Noninvasive Assessment of Cell Fate and Biology in Transplanted Mesenchymal Stem CellsFederico Franchi and Martin Rodriguez-Porcel 19. Methods for Long Term Storage of Murine Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem CellsNiketa Sareen, Ejlal Abu-El-Rub, Glen Lester Sequiera, Meenal Moudgil, and Sanjiv Dhingra 20. Therapeutic Application of Adult Stem Cells in the HeartTaylor A. Johnson and Dinender K. Singla 21. Patient-Derived and Intra-Operatively Formed Biomaterial for Tissue EngineeringShalmli U. Joshi, Rares O. Barbu, Melissa Carr-Reynolds, Brian Barnes, and Syam P. Nukavarapu 22. Three-Dimensional Printed Scaffolds with Multipotent Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for Rabbit Mandibular Reconstruction and Engineering Dongdong Fang, Michael Roskies, Mohamed-Nur Abdallah, Mohammed Bakkar, Jack Jordan, Li-Chieh Lin, Faleh Tamimi, and Simon D. Tran 23. Optimal Enviro