Stem Cell Niche: Methods and Protocols

1. Immunostaining of Germline Stem Cells and the Niche in Drosophila Ovaries

Lichao Luo, Phing Chian Chai, and Yu Cai

2. Identification of Male and Female Germline Stem Cells in Drosophila

Shree Ram Singh, Madhuri Kango-Singh, and Eviatar Nevo

3. Visualization of Adult Stem Cells Within their Niches Using the Drosophila Germline as a Model System

Annekatrin K?nig and Halyna R. Shcherbata

4. Morphometric Evaluation of the Spermatogonial Stem Cell Distribution and Niche in Vertebrates

Paulo Henrique Almeida Campos-Junior, Guilherme Mattos Jardim Costa, Gleide Fernandes de Avelar, T?nia Mara Segatelli, Samyra Maria Santos Nassif Lacerda, Pedro Manuel Aponte, and Luiz Renato de Fran?a

5. In vitro Construction of 2D and 3D Simulations of the Murine Hematopoietic Niche

Brahmananda Reddy Chitteti, Monique Bethel, Sherry L. Voytik-Harbin, Melissa A. Kacena, and Edward F. Srour

6. Isolation of Embryonic Hematopoietic Niche Cells by Flow Cytometry and Laser Capture Micro-Dissection

Daisuke Sugiyama and Tatsuya Sasaki

7. Isolation and Enrichment of Stro-1 Immunoselected Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Adult Human Bone Marrow

Emma L. Williams, Kate White, and Richard O.C. Oreffo

8. Primary Marrow Derived Stromal Cells: Isolation and Manipulation

Aravind Ramakrishnan, Beverly Torok-Storb, and Manoj M. Pillai

9. Detection In vitro and Quantitative Estimation of Artificial Microterritories Which Promote Osteogenic Differentiation and Maturation of Stromal Stem Cell

Igor A. Khlusov, Natalya M. Shevtsova, and Marina Yu

10. The Prospective Isolation of Viable, High Ploidy Megakaryocytes from Adult Murine Bone Marrow by Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting

Yi Shen, Brenda Williams, Melonie J. Storan, and Susan K. Nilsson

11. Looking for the Niche: Substance Delivery into the Lateral Ventricle of the Brain: The Osmotic Minipump System

Mar?a Victoria G?mez Gaviro, Pedro Luis S?nchez Fern?ndez, Robin Lovell Badge, and Francisco Fern?ndez Avil?s

12. Unbiased Stereological Method to Assess Proliferation Throughout the Subependymal Zone

Ana Mendanha Falc?o, Joana Almeida Palha, Ana Catarina Ferreira, Fernanda Marques, Nuno Sousa and Jo?o Carlos Sousa

13. Cardiac Stem Cell Niche, MMP9, and Culture and Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells

Paras Kumar Mishra, Nicholas John Kuypers, Shree Ram Singh, Leiberh Noel Diaz, Vishalakshi Chavali, and Suresh C. Tyagi

14. Human and Murine Skeletal Muscle Reserve Cells

Rana Abou-Khalil, Fabien Le Grand, and B?n?dicte Chazaud

15. Modulation of the Host Skeletal Muscle Niche for Donor Satellite Cell Grafting

Luisa Boldrin and Jennifer E. Morgan

16. Isolation of ckit+ Human Amniotic Fluid Stem Cells from Second Trimester

Michela Pozzobon, Martina Piccoli, Andrea Alex Schiavo, Anthony Atala, and Paolo De Coppi

17. Hypoxia and Visualization of the Stem Cell Niche

Pramudita R Ali Dalloul

18. Detection and Isolation of Human Disseminated Tumor Cells in the Murine Bone Marrow Stem Cell Niche

Yusuke Shiozawa, Russell S. Taichman, and Evan T. Keller

19. Identification and Separation of Normal Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Leukemia Stem Cells from Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Van T. Hoang, Isabel Taubert, Karina Borowski, Abraham Zepeda-Moreno, Dan Ran, Eike C. Buss, Patrick Wuchter, Volker Eckstein, and Anthony D. Ho

20. Serial Orthotopic Transplantation of Epithelial Tumors in Single-Cell Suspension

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