Applications of Flow Cytometry in Stem Cell Research and Tissue Regeneration

Awtar Krishan, Ph.D is a Professor of Pathology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. From 1965 to 1977, he was at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard MedicalSchool as Head of the Tissue Ultrastructure and Experimental Pathology Labs. Some of his recent work has focused on development and applications of a new flow cytometer which can measure cell volume and marker expression of stem cells in human apheresis samples. Dr. Krishan has more than 160 publications in peer reviewed journals. H. Krishnamurthy is working as Scientific Officer 'E' and in charge of Flow Cytometry and Confocal Microscopy Facilities at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India. His research interest is hormonal regulation of spermatogenesis and trafficking and signaling of gonadotropin receptors.Satish Totey is Chief Scientific Officer, Stempeutics Research Pvt. Ltd and Director at the Manipal Institute of Regenerative Medicine inBangalore. Dr. Totey was amongst the small number of researchers who pioneered the isolation and characterization of pluripotent stem cells from human embryos. The cell lines he established have been listed in the NIH stem cell registry. He has also developed up-scaling of mesenchymal stem cells and is currently conducting phase-I and II clinical trials for myocardial infarction, leg ischemia, cerebral stroke and Multiple Sclerosis. He has published 90 research papers and holds 12US patents.

• CONTRIBUTORS. PREFACE.1 Basics of Flow Cytometry (H. Krishnamurthy and L. Scott Cram).2 Practical Considerations for Flow Cytometric Sorting of Stem Cells (Geoffrey W. Osborne).3 Stem Cell Analysis and Sorting Using Side Population Analysis (William Telford).4 Flow Cytometry in the Study of Proliferation and Apoptosis (Michael G. Ormerod and Ronald M. Hamelik).5 Flow Cytometric Analysis of Drug Transport and Efflux in Stem Cells (Awtar Krishan and Ronald M. Hamelik).6 Stem Cell Biology and Application (Swapnil Totey, Rajarshi Pal, Murali Krishna Mamidi, Vijayendran Govindasamy, and Satish Totey).7 Identification and Isolation of Very Small Embryonic-like Stem Cells from Murine and Human Specimens (Ewa K. Zuba-Surma, Dong-Myung Shin, Izabella Klich, Janina Ratajczak, Magda Kucia, and Mariusz Z. Ratajczak).8 Electronic Volume of Hematopoietic Stem Cells (Siddharth Sharma and Awtar Krishan0.9 Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Issues in Enumeration (Michael Keeney and D. Robert Sutherland).10 Embryonic Stem Cells: Development and Characterization (Vijay Bhaskar R. Konala, Villoo Morawala-Patell, and Aparna Khanna).11 Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Long-Term Culture and Cardiovascular Differentiation (Maneesha Inamdar).12 Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Their Clinical Applications (Jyoti Kode and Vivek Tanavde).13 Circulating Adult Stem Cells of Hematopoietic Origin for Vascular and Neural Regeneration (Lissy K. Krishnan).14 Flow Cytometric Characterization of Neural Progenitors Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells (Raj R. Rao, Sujoy K. Dhara, Shilpa Iyer, and David W. Machacek).15 Limbal Stem Cells and Corneal Regeneration (Geeta K. Vemuganti, Murali Mohan Sagar Balla, and Shubha Tiwari).16 Flow Cytometric Sorting of Spermatogonial Stem Cells (B. S. Srinag, J. M. Kalappurakkal, G.H. Mohan, and H. Krishnamurthy).17 Breast Cancer Stem Cells (Devaveena Dey and Annapoorni Rangarajan).18 Tumor Stem Cell Marker Expression in Cells from Body Cavity Fluids (Awtar Krishan, Deepti Sharma, and Ronald M. Hamelik).INDEX.

"Contributors from a wide range of medical and biological sciences explain methods and procedures of flow cytometry specific to its use in research on stem cells and related matters." (SciTech Book News, December 2010)