**Meet the editor**

Dr. Rakesh Sharma, PhD in Biochemistry and in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, is a professor at AMET University and teaches Biochemistry at a medical college. In 2004, he did a research in biomedical engineering at the National High Magnetic Field Lab, Florida, and the Center of Nanobiotechnology at Florida State University, Tallahassee. Dr. Sharma is affiliated with

the Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, from 2000. His research interests are tissue differentiation and development of imaging techniques.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Medical Practice 3** Rakesh Sharma

**Engineering 21**

**Transplantation 77**

**Cardiac Tissues 97**

Rakesh Sharma

Chapter 3 **Stem Cell Aging 31**

Naumova

**Section 1 Stem Cell Therapy and Tissue Engineering 1**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering in**

**Section 2 Mechanisms of Stem Cell Differentiation and Tissue**

Chapter 2 **Current View on Hematopoiesis and Beyond 23** Jiaying Shen, Hongyan Tao and Zongjin Li

**Section 3 Advances on Stem Cells in Medical Practice 95**

Primož Rožman, Katerina Jazbec and Mojca Jež

Chapter 4 **Monitoring of Chimerism Following Hematopoietic Stem Cell**

Chapter 5 **Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Engineered**

Chapter 6 **Stem Cells in Treatment of Coronary Heart Disease and Its**

Tsvetelin Lukanov, Milena Ivanova-Shivarova and Elissaveta

Takeichiro Nakane, Hidetoshi Masumoto and Bradley B. Keller

**Monitoring: Tissue Engineering and Clinical Evaluation 111**
