Commentary A: Embryonic stem cells from non-viable tissues: an alternative source of stem cells for therapy? / Philippe Taupin -- Commentary B: Thymidine analogs and BRDU labeling for studying neurogenesis: beware of the limitations and pitfalls / Philippe Taupin -- Commentary C: Less than perfect HLA matching in human embryonic stem cell banking--can combined transplantation/transfusion with autologous adult stem cells provide a solution? / Boon Chin Heng, Hua Liu and Tong Cao -- Gut stem cells: multipotent, clonogenic and the origin of gastrointestinal cancer? / Shigeki Bamba, William R. Otto and Nicholas A. Wright -- Pancreatic stem cells: specification program and self-renewal mechanisms / Francisco Miralles -- Stem cells in gastrointestinal cancer--combining embryogenesis and carcinogenesis? / Daniel Neureiter, Christoph Herold and Matthias Ocker -- Differentiation and lineage-commitment of stem cells for therapeutic applications / Boon Chin Heng ... [et al.] -- Effect of parathyroid hormone (PTH (1-34)) on hematopoietic and mesenchymal stem cells and their progeny / I.N. Nifontova ... [et al.] --
Microbiological issues in stem cell research: new technologies for diagnosis / Fernando Cobo -- Expression of neuronal stem cells and neurogenesis after traumatic brain injury / Tatsuki Itoh ... [et al.] -- Transdifferentiation of mesenchymal stem cells--an alternative approach in regenerative medicine of demyelinating diseases / Gerburg Keilhoff and Hisham Fansa -- Wound healing activity of bone marrow stromal stem cells / Seung-Kyu Han and Chi-Ho Lee -- Antiangiogenesis in arthritis therapy: endostatin and its mechanism of action / Daitaro Kurosaka -- Body building exercise: maintenance and loss of stemness in spinal cord neural stem cells / Isabelle Roszko and Luc Mathis -- Lentivirus and neural stem cell: an experimental study for the repair of spinal cord injury / Guang-yun Sun ... [et al.] -- Therapeutic potential of embryonic stem cells / Philippe Taupin