In terms of cellular proliferation and replacement, which are the three types of adult cells? Give some examples of cell types that belong to each type
What is VEGF? What is it required for?
Why is it that some cell populations require the presence of stem cells for tissue maintenance?
By the way, what's a stem cell?
What tissues in our bodies contain (and depend on) a high number of progenitor cells?
Enumerate two current applications and two potential applications of stem cell technology
What's the difference between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells?
What are multipotent, pluripotent, and totipotent stem cells?
How do you obtain embryonic stem cells?
True or false: we know the specific factors required to trigger the differentiation of stem cells into most adult cell types
What's the most important advantage offered by embryonic stem cells as compared to adult stem cells?
What's the most technologically challenging step during therapeutic cloning?
Is there any experimental proof that therapeutic cloning is a doable alternative to treat specific diseases?
What is "re-programming" adult cells?
Why is the development of technologies to re-program adult cells considered to be so important?
By the way, how do you re-program adult cells?
Are re-programmed adult fully equivalent to embryonic stem cells?
Based on your answer above, would it be of any value to continue performing research on the development and use of new embryonic stem cell lines? Should the government fund such research?
Why is cancer much more predominant in the elderly?
What are the eight most important properties of cancer cells?
What's the plasma membrane protein that plays a critical role in cell-cell and cell-substrate adhesion, the one that is usually lost during oncogenesis?
What's the relevance of the production of proteases by cancer cells?
Why are anti-angiogenic factors very promising anti-cancer agents?
Why is it that most cancers are associated with the immature stages of the cell lineage that they are derived from?
What are carcinogens?
What is the difference between mutagenic and mitogenic factors?
What's an Oncogene? What's a proto-oncogene? How can a proto-oncogene become an oncogene? Which one is the most frequent oncogene found in human cancers?
What's a Tumor Suppressor Gene? How can they be identified?
What are the 2 tumor suppressor genes most important for human cancer development?
How does Rb normally control cellular proliferation?
How does p53 normally control cellular proliferation?