Meet the editor

Dr Khalid Ahmed Al-Anazi is a consultant hemato-oncologist and the Chairman of the Department of Adult Hematology and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) at King Fahad Specialist Hospital (KFSH) in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He graduated from the College of Medicine, King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh in 1986. After receiving his Boards in Internal Medicine, he did his fellowship training in Clinical Hematology

and HSCT at King's College Hospital, University of London, U.K. He has 4 years of experience in internal medicine and 27 years of experience in adult clinical hematology and HSCT at Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital then King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH) and College of Medicine, KSU in Riyadh and KFSH in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He received the award for the best teacher in the Department of Medicine at the College of Medicine and KKUH in Riyadh in 2014. He established the adult HSCT program at KFSH in Dammam in 2010. He has more than 95 publications including retrospective studies, review articles, book chapters, and electronic books and he is a reviewer for 25 international medical journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the following journals: *Stem Cell Therapy and Transplantation*, *Stem Cell Biology and Transplantation*, and *Molecular Genetics and Medicine* in addition to being Associate Editor for 26 other medical journals in HSCT, hematology, cancer, and infectious diseases.

Contents

**Section 1**

Pluripotent Stem Cells *by Khalid Ahmed Al-Anazi*

*by Valérie Vanneaux*

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Preface III**

Mesenchymal and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells - General Outline **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 15**

Clinical Utilization of Mesenchymal Stem Cells **27**

**Chapter 3 29**

**Chapter 4 51**

**Chapter 5 85**

Specific Roles and Properties of Mesenchymal Stem Cells **99**

**Chapter 6 101**

Introductory Chapter: Update on Mesenchymal and Induced

The Rising Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Treatment

The Role of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in the Management

*by Khalid Ahmed Al-Anazi, Waleed K. Al-Anazi and Asma M. Al-Jasser*

GMSC: Updates of Advances on Its Therapy in Immunological Diseases

The Angiogenic Paracrine Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells

*Elhameh Shokrollahi, Mahdi Ahmadi and Reza Rahbarghazi*

*by Jafar Rezaie, Morteza Heidarzadeh, Mehdi Hassanpour, Hassan Amini,* 

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Clinical Use

of Various Infectious Complications

*by Charan Thej and Pawan Kumar Gupta*

*by Yuluan Hou and Song Guo Zheng*

of Osteoarthritis of the Knee
