Use of various types of stem cells for conditions such as stroke ischemia heart diseases alzhemiers disease and neurogenerative diseases in general is explained for example generation of human cardiac muscle cells from adipose derived stem cells is included. Use of various types of stem cells for conditions such as stroke ischemia heart diseases alzhemiers disease and neurogenerative diseases in general is explained for example generation of human cardiac muscle cells from adipose derived stem cells is included. Stem cells and cancer stem cells volume 2 stem cells and cancer stem cells therapeutic applications in disease and injury volume 2 stem cells and cancer stem cells 2 9789400720152 medicine health science books amazoncom. Stemness combines the ability of a cell to perpetuate its lineage to give rise to differentiated cells and to interact with its environment to maintain a balance between quiescence proliferation and regeneration while adult stem cells display these properties when participating in tissue homeostasis cancer stem cells cscs behave as their malignant equivalents. Cancer stem cells isolated from adult human gliomas were shown to induce tumours that resembled the parent tumour when grafted into intracranial nude mouse models in cancer research experiments tumor cells are sometimes injected into an experimental animal to establish a tumor disease progression is then followed in time and novel drugs can be tested for their efficacy