Ectoderm specification and differentiation

Cellular Neurobiology Lecture Notes

This note describes the following topics: Membrane Channels and Signaling, Ionic basis of the Resting Potential, Action Potential, Neurons as Conductors,Electrical and Chemical Synaptic Transmission,Mechanisms of Transmitter Release at Synapses, From Genes to Structure to Behavior, Nervous System Development, Olfaction and Other Sensory Systems,Pain and Thermoreception.

Author(s): Prof. Troy Littleton and Prof. William Quinn

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Stem Book

This book is an open access collection of invited, original, peer-reviewed chapters covering a range of topics related to stem cell biology written by top researchers in the field at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and worldwide. Stem Book is aimed at stem cell and non-specialist researchers.

Author(s): Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University

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Essentials of Cell Biology

This note covers the following topics: what is a cell what are the essential characteristics of cells, how do cells decode genetic information into functional proteins, how are eukaryotic cells organized into smaller parts, how do cells sense their environment and how do cells know when to divide

Author(s): NA

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Prebiotic Evolution Molecular and Cell biology(PDF 26P)

This note covers the following topics: Precellular evolution, Oparin and Haldane hypothesis, Precursors to purines, Origin of polymers, Conservation of Group 1 introns, RNA as polymerase, RNA as nuclease and ligase, RNA genome, Genetic code and Precellular evolution.

Author(s): Prof. David Fitch, Department of Biology, New York University

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Basics of Cell Biology Literature Reading (PDF 49P)

This note covers the following topics: Basics of cell biology, Imaging: light microscopy and electron microscopy, Basics of the diffusion theory.

Author(s): Ge Yang, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

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Ectoderm specification and differentiation

This note explains the following topics: The cranial sensory nervous system, Tooth organogenesis and regeneration, Melanocyte stem cells, Limbal epithelial stem cells of the cornea, Neural crest-derived stem cells.

Author(s): Andrea Streit, Masatake Osawa, Irma Thesleff, Mark Tummers, Olga Shakhova

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Stem cell immunology

This note explains the following topics: Immunologic targeting of the cancer stem cell, Immunological considerations for cell therapy using human embryonic stem cell derivatives, Mouse models of graft-versus-host disease, Prospects for ensuring acceptance of ES cell-derived tissues.

Author(s): Massachusetts General Hospital

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Niche biology, homing, and migration

This note explains the following topics: Hematopoietic stem cell trafficking, Trafficking of hematopoietic stem cells during embryogenesis and fetal development, Post-natal HSC migration to bone marrow, Egress of bone marrow HSCs to the periphery and the neural stem cell microenvironment.

Author(s): Claire Magnon, Paul S. Frenette, Ilias Kazanis, Justin Lathia, Lara Moss, Charles ffrench-Constant

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INTRODUCTION TO CELL CYCLE ANALYSIS (PDF 34P)

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DNA Synthesis (PDF 87P)

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