Cell fusion in health and disease. I, Cell fusion in health / Thomas Dittmar, Kurt S. Zänker, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dittmar, Thomas.

Zänker, Kurt S.

Series:

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 713.

Advances in experimental medicine and biology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cell hybridization.

Cell Fusion.

Medical Subjects:

Cell Fusion.

Physical Description:

xii, 189 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Cell fusion in health

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht [Germany] ; New York [N.Y.] : Springer Science+Business Media, [2011]

Summary:

Although cell fusion is an omnipresent process in life, to date considerably less-is still mown about the mechanisms and the molecules being involved in this biological phenomenon in higher organisms. In Cell Fusion in Health and Disease Volume International leading experts will present up-to-date: overviews about the current knowledge about cell fusion-mediating molecules in C. elegans and mammalian cells. Further topics of the book will focus on cell fusion in physiological processes including fertilization, placentation, skeletal muscle development, and tissue, repair and will sum up the use of artificial cell fusion for cellular reprogramming and cancer vaccine development. Thus, Cell Fusion in Health and Disease Volume 1 represents a state of the art work for researchers, physicians or professionals being interested in the biological phenomenon of cell fusion in physiological processes and beyond. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Thomas Dittmar and Kurt S. Zänker

2. Heterochronic control of AFF-1-mediated cell-to-cell fusion in C. elegans / Lilach Friedlander-Shani and Benjamin Podbilewicz

3. Role of SNAREs in membrane fusion / Bhanu P. Jena

4. Molecular and cellular mechanisms of mammalian cell fusion / Xiaofeng Zhou and Jeffrey L. Platt

5. Membrane fusions during mammalian fertilization / Bart M. Gadella and Janice P. Evans

6. Trophoblast fusion / Berthold Huppertz and Martin Gauster

7. Macrophage fusion and multinucleated giant cells of inflammation / Amy K. McNally and James M. Anderson

8. Molecular mechanisms of myoblast fusion across species / Adriana Simionescu and Grace K. Pavlath

9. Cell-fusion-mediated reprogramming : pluripotency or transdifferentiation? : implications for regenerative medicine / Daniela Sanges, Frederic Lluis, and Maria Pia Cosma

10. Cell fusion and tissue regeneration / Manuel Álvarez-Dolado and Magdalena Martínez-Losa

11. Dendritic cell-tumour cell fusion vaccines / Walter T. Lee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9400707622

9789400707627

OCLC:

706626325