Suggested Reading
- Beattie GM, Otonkoski T, Lopez AD, Hayek A. Functional beta-cell mass after transplantation of human fetal pancreatic cells: differentiation or proliferation? Diabetes 1997;46: 244–248.
- Blau HM, Brazelton TR, Weimann JM. The evolving concept of a stem cell: entity or function? Cell 2001;105: 829–841.
- Committee on the Biological and Biomedical Applications of Stem Cell Research. Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001.
- Jackson KA, Majka SM, Wang H, Pocius J, Hartley CJ, Majesky MW, Entman ML, Michael LH, Hirschi KK, Goodell MA. Regeneration of ischemic cardiac muscle and vascular endothelium by adult stem cells. J Clin Invest 2001;107: 1395–1402.
- Lumelsky N, Blondel O, Laeng P, Velasco I, Ravin R, McKay R. Differentiation of embryonic stem cells to insulin-secreting structures similar to pancreatic islets. Science 2001;292: 1389–1394.
- McDonald JW, Liu XZ, Qu Y, Liu S, Mickey SK, Turetsky D, Gottlieb DI, Choi DW. Transplanted embryonic stem cells survive, differentiate and promote recovery in injured rat spinal cord. Nat Med 1999;5: 1410–1412.
- Nathan DG, Fontanarosa PB, Wilson JD. Opportunities for medical research in the 21st century. JAMA 2001;285: 533–534.
- National Bioethics Advisory Commission. Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research. Volume III. Religious Perspectives. Rockville, Md: National Bioethics Advisory Commission, 2000. Available at http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nbac/stemcell3.pdf. Accessed December 2001.
- National Institutes of Health. Stem Cells: A Primer, 2001. Available at http://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/primer.htm. Accessed January 2002.
- National Institutes of Health. Stem Cells: Scientific Progress and Future Research Directions, 2001. Available at http://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/scireport.htm. Accessed January 2002.
- Perry D. Patients' voices: the powerful sound in the stem cell debate. Science 2000;287: 1423.
- Ramiya VK, Maraist M, Arfors KE, Schatz DA, Peck AB, Cornelius JG. Reversal of insulin-dependent diabetes using islets generated in vitro from pancreatic stem cells. Nat Med 2000;6: 278–282.
- Theise ND, Nimmakayalu M, Gardner R, Illei PB, Morgan G, Teperman L, Henegariu O, Krause DS. Liver from bone marrow in humans. Hepatology 2000;32: 11–16.
- Zuk PA, Zhu M, Mizuno H, Huang J, Futrell JW, Katz AJ, Benhaim P, Lorenz HP, Hedrick MH. Multilineage cells from human adipose tissue: implications for cell-based therapies. Tissue Eng 2001;7: 211–228.