Hyaluronan in cancer biology
By: edited by Robert Stern.
Contributors: Stern, Robert, M.D.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Diego, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780123741783
Subjects: Hyaluronic acid -- Pathophysiology; Carcinogenesis; Hyaluronic Acid -- metabolism; Neoplasms -- metabolism; Antigens, CD44 -- metabolism; Disease Progression; Hyaluronic Acid -- therapeutic use
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Association between "acid mucopolysaccharides" and malignancy : an old concept comes of age, finally / Robert stern; title: Hyaluronan : a constitutive regulator of chemoresistance and malignancy in cancer cells / Mark G. Slomiany and Bryan P. Toole; title: Growth factor regulation of hyaluronan deposition in malignancies / Paraskevi Heldin, Eugenia Karousou, and Spyros S. Skandalis; title: Hyaluronan binding protein 1 (HABP1) in cancer biology / Kasturi Datta; title: CD44 meets merlin and ezrin : their interplay mediates the pro-tumor activity of CD44 and tumor-suppressing effect of merlin / Ivan Stamenkovic and Qin Yu; title: Hyaluronan-mediated CD44 interaction with receptor and non-receptor kinases promotes oncogenic signaling, cytoskeleton activation, and tumor progression / Lilly Y.W. Bourguignon; title: Adhesion and penetration : two sides of CD44 signal transduction cascades in the context of cancer cell metastasis / David J.J. Waugh ... [et al.]; title: Involvement of CD44, a molecule with a thousand faces, in cancer dissemination / David Naor ... [et al.]; title: Rhamm/Hmmr : an itinerant and multifunctional hyaluronan binding protein that modifies CD44 signaling and mitotic spindle formation / James B. McCarthy and Eva A. Turley; title: Altered hyaluronan biosynthesis in cancer progression / Naoki Itano and Koji Kimata; title: Hyaluronidase : both a tumor promoter and suppressor / Vinata B. Lokeshwar and Marie G. Selzer; title: The hyaluronidases in cancer biology / Robert Stern; title: Hyaluronan fragments : informational polymers commandeered by cancers / Kazuki N. Sugahara; title: Hyaluronan in human tumors : importance of stromal and cancer cell-associated hyaluronan / Raija H. Tammi ... [et al.]; title: The oncofetal paradigm revisited : MSF and HA as contextual drivers of cancer progression / Seth L. Schor ... [et al.]; title: Hyaluronan synthesis and turnover in prostate cancer / Melanie A. Simpson; title: Role of hyaluronan in melanoma progression / Carl Gebhardt ... [et al.]; title: Role of hyaluronan metabolism in the initiation, invasion, and metastasis of breast cancer / Tracey J. Brown and Natalie Thomas; title: Clinical application of hyaluronidase in combination cancer chemotherapy : a historic perspective / Gerhard Baumgartner and Gerhard Hamilton; title: Exploring the hyaluronan:CD44 interaction for cancer therapy / Virginia M. Platt and Francis C. Szoka; title: Hyaluronidase-2 and its role as a cell-entry receptor for sheep retroviruses that cause contagious respiratory tract cancers / A. Dusty Miller.