Prelims -- I Mesenchymal stem cells -- Mesenchymal stem cells in bone regeneration -- Experimental (preclinical) studies and clinical trials of adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells for Autoimmune diseases -- Validity of markers for epithelial cells and mesenchymal Cells -- Mesenchymal stem cell survival in infarcted myocardium: adhesion and anti-death signals -- Hepatogenic differentiation: comparison between adipose tissue -derived stem cells and bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells -- Fibrin for encapsulation of human mesenchymal stem cells for chondrogenic differentiation -- Differences between adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal  stem cells and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells as regulators of the immune response -- Transforming growth factor-beta induced chrondrogenic differentiation of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells: role of smad signaling pathways -- II Induced pluripotent stem cells -- Drug discovery using human ipsc based disease models and functional hepatic cells -- Generation of antigen-specific t lymphocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells for adoptive immunotherapy -- III Neural cells and neural stem cells -- Genetic identification of human embryonic stem cell-derived neural cell types using bacterial artificial chromosomes -- Moderate low temperature preserves the stemness of neural stem cells (methods) -- IV Role of stem cells in disease -- High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell support in the treatment of transformed b-cell non-hodgkin's lymphomas -- The wnt/β-catenin pathway as a potential target for drug Resistant leukemic stem cells -- Bone marrow stem cell therapies for diabetes mellitus and its complications -- Thyroid cancer stem cells - strategies for therapeutic targeting.- Role of cancer stem cell in mammary carcinogenesis and its clinical implication -- Critical analysis of parkinson's disease models and cell-based therapy -- Presence of an early lineage stem cell phenotype in meningioma-initiating cells -- Isolation and characterization of cancer stem cells from dog glioblastoma -- Role of stem cell niche in the development of bone metastases (an update) -- Treatment of hemophilia a using b cell-directed protein delivery.-V Stem cell transplantation -- Reduction in the risk invasive fungal infection relapse in patients undergoing allogenic stem cell transplantation using caspofunginas secondary prophylaxis -- Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in elderly patients with myelodisplastic syndrome and acute myelogenous leukemia: use of busulfan/fludarabine for conditioning -- Co-transplantation of islets with mesenychymal stem cells improves islet revascularization and reversal of hyperglycemia -- Significance of interleukin -7 receptor alpha polymorphisms in allogeneic stem cell transplantation -- Index.