Application of apoptosis to cancer treatment
By: [edited] by Mels Sluyser.
Contributors: Sluyser, M. 1930-
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781402033032; 9781402033025
Subjects: Antineoplastic Agents -- therapeutic use; Apoptosis -- drug effects; Neoplasms -- drug therapy; Cancer -- Treatment; Apoptosis
Notes: Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Disfunction of the apoptotic pathway in cancer cells.; title: Calcium signaling and apoptosis resistance of cancer cells.; title: Cell clearance and cancer.; title: Specific, pro-apoptotic cell-signaling: design of novel, recombinant targeted antitumor agents operating exclusively through modulation of cellular apoptotic events: novel, targeted pro-apoptotic therapeutic agents.; title: Targeting oncogenes which regulate apoptosis.; title: Targeting cyclins to cause cancer cell apoptosis.; title: Apoptosis induction by tumor-targeted toxins.; title: Targeting cell-death pathways in multiple myeloma: therapeutic implications.; title: Cephalostatin 1-induced apoptosis in tumor cells selective induction of Smac/DIABLO release.; title: Hamlet: a novel tool to identify apoptotic pathways in tumor cells.; title: Cancer immunotherapy: on the trail of a cure?; title: Histone deacetylase inhibitors as a treatment of trail-resistant cancers.; title: Basis of cell kill following clinical radiotherapy.; title: Imaging of apoptotic cells in vivo.; title: Apoptosis-inducing anticancer drugs in clinical trials.