Contents

### **Preface XIII**



### **Section 4 Therapeutic Approaches for Muscular Disorder 115**

### Chapter 7 **Making Skeletal Muscle from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells 117**

Ken'ichiro Nogami, Matthias Blanc, Fusako Takemura, Shin'ichi Takeda and Yuko Miyagoe-Suzuki

**Section 6 Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Tissue Engineering 287**

Chapter 14 **Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells (VSMCs) in Blood Vessel Tissue**

Chapter 15 **Methods and Model Systems Used to Study Pregnant Human**

**VSMC Precursors 289**

**Uterine Smooth Muscle 309** Marina Ilicic and Jonathan W. Paul

Chapter 16 **Morphology of Right Atrium Myocytes 339**

Molitor

**Section 7 Cardiac Myocytes 337**

Marina L. Bugrova

**Engineering: The Use of Differentiated Cells or Stem Cells as**

Lucie Bacakova, Martina Travnickova, Elena Filova, Roman Matejka, Jana Stepanovska, Jana Musilkova, Jana Zarubova and Martin

Contents **VII**
