Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. Stem Cells -- Therapeutical Potential of Stem Cells -- Embryonic Stem Cells, a Promise of Therapeutic Applications -- Mesenchymal Stem Cell Characterization -- Mesenchymal Stem Cells -- Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine -- Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Biology and Clinical Application -- Umbilical Cord Blood: From Current Use to Future Applications -- Adipose Stem Cells: Identification, Properties and Interest for Clinical Applications -- Circulating Stem Cells Including Endothelial Progenitor Cells -- Cancer Stem Cells: The Example of Leukemic Stem Cells -- Influence of Mechanical Forces on Cells and Tissues -- Myofibroblasts: Origins and Regulation of Phenotype by Mechanical Signaling -- Part II. Applications -- Cell Therapy in Hematology: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantations in 2012 -- Interaction Between Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Acute Leukemia -- Anti-Viral Immunotherapy After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation -- Adipose Stromal/Stem Cell and Cardiovascular Repair -- Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Ischemic Cardiomyopathy -- Heart Development and Cardiac Stem Cells -- Cell Therapy for Muscular Dystrophies -- Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Genetic Muscle Disease -- Anti-Thrombogenic Strategies Toward Vascular Grafts Development -- Neural Tissue Engineering Strategies -- Chondrocytes and Mechanical Forces -- Articular Cartilage Engineering -- Chondrogenic Differentiation of Human Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells -- Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Treatment of Cartilage Lesions -- Subchondral Bone Alterations Associated with Marrow Stimulation for Articular Cartilage Repair - Experimental Data and Clinical Implications -- Gene Therapy of Osteochondral Defects.

Stem and Progenitor Cells for Liver Regenerative Medicine -- Cell Therapy of Burns -- Bioengineered Corneas: From Epithelial Cells Culture to 3D Models -- Alternatives to Allogeneic Red Blood Cells Transfusion - In vitro Maturated Red Blood Cells a New Step in Cell Therapy -- European Regulations of MSC for Clinical Uses -- Author Index.