Programmed cell death in cancer progression and therapy / Roya Khosravi-Far, Eileen White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khosravi-Far, Roya.

White, Eileen (Eileen P.)

Series:

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 615.

Advances in experimental medicine and biology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apoptosis.

Neoplasms--physiopathology.

Neoplasms--etiology.

Neoplasms--therapy.

Cell death.

Medical Subjects:

Apoptosis.

Neoplasms--physiopathology.

Neoplasms--etiology.

Neoplasms--therapy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 356 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Berlin] : Springer, 2008.

Contents:

Cell death : history and future / Zahra Zakeri and Richard A. Lockshin

Caspase mechanisms / Guy S. Salvesen and Stefan J. Riedl

The mitochondrial death pathway / Anas Chalah and Roya Khosravi-Far

Apoptotic pathways in tumor progression and therapy / Armelle Melet ... [et al.]

Therapeutic targeting of death pathways in cancer : mechanisms for activating cell death in cancer cells / Ting-Ting Tan and Eileen White

Overcoming resistance to apoptosis in cancer therapy / Peter Hersey, Xu Dong Zhang, and Nizar Mhaidat

Trail receptors : targets for cancer therapy / Robin C. Humphreys and Wendy Halpern

Rational design of therapeutics targeting the BCL-2 family : are some cancer cells primed for death but waiting for a final push? / Victoria Del Gaizo Moore and Anthony Letai

Autophagy and tumor suppression : recent advances in understanding the link between autophagic cell death pathways and tumor development / Shani Bialik and Adi Kimchi

Regulation of programmed cell death by the P53 pathway / Kageaki Kuribayashi and Wafik S. El-Deiry

Regulation of programmed cell death by NF-[kappa]B and its role in tumorigenesis and therapy / Yongjun Fan ... [et al.]

Targeting proteasomes as therapy in multiple myeloma / Dharminder Chauhan, Teru Hideshima, and Kenneth C. Anderson

Histone deacetylase inhibitors : mechanisms and clinical significance in cancer : HDAC inhibitor-induced apoptosis / Sharmila Shankar and Rakesh K. Srivastava

RNA interference and cancer : endogenous pathways and therapeutic approaches / Derek M. Dykxhoorn, Dipanjan Chowdhury, and Judy Lieberman

Cancer stem cells and impaired apoptosis / Zainab Jagani and Roya Khosravi-Far.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781402065538

1402065531

9781402065545

140206554X

OCLC:

213362152