Stroke Recovery with Cellular Therapies

Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction The Potential of Cell Transplantation to Enhance Recovery After Stroke Sean I. Savitz, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02215 Chapter 2 Safety and Efficacy of Transplanting Immortalized Neural Stem Cells in Stroke Patients Lawrence Wechsler, MD Professor of Neurology University of Pittsburgh Medical School Chapter 3 Bone Marrow Transplantation Therapy for Stroke Recovery Michael Chopp, PhD Professor and Vice-Chairman Department of Neurology Henry Ford Health Sciences Center Detroit, MI Chapter 4 Human Umbilical Cord Cells for Stroke Recovery Alison Wiling, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Director, Center of Excellence for Aging & Brain Repair University of South Florida College of Medicine Chapter 5 Potential of Adipose-derived Stem Cells for Stroke Henry Rice, MD Associate Professor of Surgery Duke University Medical Center Chapter 6 Novel Imaging Modalities to Monitor Implanted Embryonic Stem Cells in Stroke Mathias Hoehn, PhD Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research Cologne, Germany Chapter 7 Cell Transplantation for Intracerebral Hemorrhage JK Roh, MD Professor of Neurology Seoul National University Hospital Korea Chapter 8 Induction Neurogenesis To Repair The Brain: Do We Need Exogenous Cell Transplantation Mark Mehler, MD Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience Albert Einstein College of Medicine Chapter 9 Ethics of Stem CellTransplantation Ruth Macklin, PhD Professor of Bioethics Department of Epidemiology Albert Einstein College of Medicine Chapter 10 Special Considerations in Clinical Trial Design for Stroke Transplantation Sean I Savitz MD and Louis Caplan, MDAssistant Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center