**EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS – DIFFERENTIATION AND PLURIPOTENT ALTERNATIVES**

Edited by **Michael S. Kallos**

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/1789 Edited by Michael S. Kallos

#### **Contributors**

Erhard Bieberich, Guanghu Wang, Balaji M. M. Rao, Prasenjit Sarkar, Rubens Camargo Siqueira, Mariusz Z. Ratajczak, Dong-Myung Shin, Janina Ratajczak, Magda Kucia, Keiji Miyazawa, Kyoko Kawasaki, Ronald A. Li, Ellen Poon, Chi-wing Kong, Shin Kawamata, Noemi Fusaki, Naoki Nishishita, Suk-Ying Tsang, Iek-Chi Lo, Chun-Kit Wong, Maria Elisabetta Ruaro, Jelena Ban, Vincent Torre, David Warburton, Gianni Carraro, Laura Perin, Orquidea H. Garcia, Roger De Filippo, Kazutoshi Takahashi, Koji Tanabe, Nicole I. I. Zur Nieden, Kevin C. Keller, Diego Franco, Amelia Aranega, Estefania Lozano-Velasco, Sohail Ahmed, Hui Theng Gan, Chen Sok Lam, Srinivas Ramasamy, Oz Pomp, Peter Oettgen, Katriina Aalto-Setälä, Ville J. Kujala, Mari Pekkanen-Mattila, Irina Kerkis, Mirian A.F. Hayashi, Nelson Foresto Lizier, Antonio Carlos Cassola, Alexandre Kerkis, Lygia V. Pereira, Candace Kerr, Siddharth Gupta, Angelo All, Francois Berthiaume, Timothy J. Maguire, Martin L. Yarmush, Nir I. Nativ, Mehdi A. Ghodbane, Tammy Laberge, Herman S. Cheung, Laszlo Nagy, Zoltan Simandi, Toshio Miki, Hiroshi Imai, Sandeep Goel, Mariz Vainzof, Camila De Freitas F. Almeida, Danielle Ayub-Guerrieri, Raymond C.B. Ching-Bong Wong, Ellen L. Smith, Peter J. Donovan

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Embryonic Stem Cells - Differentiation and Pluripotent Alternatives Edited by Michael S. Kallos p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-632-4 eBook (PDF) ISBN 978-953-51-6521-7
