Human iPS Cells in Disease Modelling

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fukuda, Keiichi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Stem cells.; Cell culture.; Life Sciences.; Stem Cells.; Cell Culture.

Human iPS cells have a great potential to be cell sources for regenerative medicine because of the promise of infinite self-renewal and the capability to differentiate into multiple cell types. This book focuses on another great potential of human iPS cells, which is the establishment of human disea...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Recent Improvements and Emerging Issues in iPSC Generation for the Modeling of Disease
• Chapter 2 Cardiomyopathy
• Chapter 3 Modelling Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy with Patient-specific iPSCs
• Chapter 4 Cardiac Arrhythmia Modelling Using iPS Cells
• Chapter 5 iPSC Disease Modeling of Laminopathies
• Chapter 6 Hematological Disorders
• Chapter 7 Inherited Metabolic Disorders of the Liver. .