Human iPS Cells in Disease Modelling

Keiichi Fukuda

ISBN 10: 4431559647 / ISBN 13: 9784431559641

Published by Springer, 2016

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Human iPS cells have a great potential to be cell sources forregenerative medicine because of the promise of infinite self-renewal and thecapability to differentiate into multiple cell types. This book focuses onanother great potential of human iPS cells, which is the establishment of humandisease models using patient-specific iPS cells. Human iPS cells can be easilyobtained from a patient's somatic cells and provide the entire information on thepatient's genome. Accordingly, we can generate disease models for inheritablediseases in cell culture dishes using iPS cells. This is a quite new techniquebut holds tremendous potential for our increased understanding of pathogenesis,and will then be the basis for novel drug development industries. All theauthors are leading researchers in this field and they have reported many kindsof patient-derived iPS cells. In this book, they introduce the aspects thatcould be recapitulated in terms of disease modelling as well as furtherinnovative findings such as novel pathogenetic insights and novel therapies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human iPS Cells in Disease Modelling
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4431559647
• ISBN 13: 9784431559641
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 12D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 356 grams

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Synopsis

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 disease models using patient-specific iPS cells. Human iPS cells can be easily obtained from a patient’s somatic cells and provide the entire information on the patient’s genome. Accordingly, we can generate disease models for inheritable diseases in cell culture dishes using iPS cells. This is a quite new technique but holds tremendous potential for our increased understanding of pathogenesis, and will then be the basis for novel drug development industries. All the authors are leading researchers in this field and they have reported many kinds of patient-derived iPS cells. In this book, they introduce the aspects that could be recapitulated in terms of disease modelling as well as further innovative findings such as novel pathogenetic insights and novel therapies. 

About the Author

Dr. Keiichi Fukuda obtained PhD degree in Division of Medicine, Keio University Graduate School, Japan in 1987. He started his carrier as an assistant Professor at Keio University, and promoted to full Professor in 2005. He is one of the top scientists in Japan and renowned as he had established a new therapy using regenerated cardiomyocytes obtained from stem cells.