Inhaltsangabe1. Introduction to Cell Culture            Christina Philippeos, Robin D. Hughes, Anil Dhawan, and Ragai R. Mitry 2. Isolation and Cultivation of Dermal Stem Cells that Differentiate into Functional Epidermal Melanocytes            Ling Li, Mizuho Fukunaga-Kalabis, and Meenhard Herlyn 3. Isolation, Cultivation, and Application of Human Alveolar Epithelial Cells            Nicole Daum, Anna Kuehn, Stephanie Hein, Ulrich F. Schaefer, Hanno Huwer, and Claus-Michael Lehr 4. Culture of Parathyroid Cells            Peyman Björklund and Per Hellman 5. Functional Analysis of Human Islets of Langerhans Maintained in Culture            Shanta J. Persaud, Bo Liu, and Peter M. Jones 6. Conversion of Non-Endocrine Human Pancreatic Cells to Insulin Producing Cells for Treatment of Diabetes            Min Zhao and Guocai Huang 7. Evaluation of Cytochrome P450 Activities in Human Hepatocytes In Vitro            María José Gómez-Lechón, Agustín Lahoz, José V.Castell, and María Teresa Donato 8. Human Hepatocytes: Isolation, Culture, and Quality Procedures            Daniel Knobeloch, Sabrina Ehnert, Lilianna Schyschka, Peter Büchler, Michael Schoenberg, Jörg Kleeff, Wolfgang E. Thasler, Natascha C. Nussler, Patricio Godoy, Jan Hengstler, and Andreas K. Nussler 9. Preclinical Testing of Virotherapeutics for Primary and Secondary Tumors of the Liver            Martina Zimmermann, Timo Weiland, Michael Bitzer, and Ulrich M. Lauer 10. Isolation and Functional Studies of Human Fetal Gastric Epithelium in Primary Culture            Pierre Chailler, Jean-François Beaulieu, and Daniel Ménard 11. Isolation, Characterization, and Culture of Normal Human Intestinal Crypt and Villus Cells            Jean-François Beaulieu and Daniel Ménard 12. Primary Culture of Human Renal Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cells and Interstitial Fibroblasts            Claire C. Sharpe and Mark E.C. Dockrell 13. Glomerular Epithelial and Mesangial Cell Culture and Characterization            Heather M. Wilson and Keith N. Stewart 14. Isolation and Culture of Human Adipocytes and Adipose Tissue            Kirstin A. Carswell, Mi-Jeong Lee, and Susan K. Fried 15. Primary Culture of Human Adipocyte Precursor Cells: Expansion and Differentiation            Thomas Skurk and Hans Hauner 16. Primary Culture of Ovarian Cells for Research on Cell Interactions in the Hormonal Control of Steroidogenesis            Jerzy F. Galas 17. Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Culture            Diane Proudfoot and Catherine Shanahan 18. Culture of Human Endothelial Cells from Umbilical Veins            Richard C.M. Siow 19. Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Culture for Flowcytometric Analysis of Phosphorylated Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases            Athanasios Mavropoulos, Daniel Smyk, Eirini I. Rigopoulou, and Dimitrios P. Bogdanos 20. Human CD4+CD25highCD127low/neg Regulatory T Cells            Haibin Su, Maria Serena Longhi, Pengyun Wang, Diego Vergani, and Yun Ma 21. Human Chondrocyte Cultures as Models of Cartilage-Specific Gene Regulation            Miguel Otero, Marta Favero, Cecilia Dragomir, Karim El Hachem, Darren A. Plumb, and Mary B. Goldring 22. Isolation and Culture of Human Osteoblasts            Alison Gartland, Ro