Cancer stem cells in solid tumors
By: Alison L. Allan, editor
Series: Stem cell biology and regenerative medicine; Stem cell biology and regenerative medicine
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9781617792458; 9781617792465
Subjects: Cancer cells; Cancer; Molecular aspects; Neoplasms; Neoplastic Stem Cells; Etiology; Stem cells; Physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cancer stem cells : historical perspectives and lessons from leukemia / Christopher R. Cogle; title: Cancer stem cells in breast cancer / Jenny E. Chu and Alison L. Allan; title: Cancer stem cells in brain cancer / Xin Wang, Chitra Venugopal, and Sheila K. Singh; title: Cancer stem cells in colorectal cancer / Mauro Biffoni, Eros Fabrizi, and Lucia Ricci-Vitiani; title: Cancer stem cells in pancreatic cancer / Jorge Dorado, Alicia G. Serrano, and Christopher Heeschen; title: Cancer stem cells in prostate cancer / Paula Kroon ... [et al.]; title: Cancer stem cells in melanoma / Ping Jin ... [et al.]; title: Cancer stem cells in lung cancer / Jun Shen and Feng Jiang; title: Cancer stem cells in ovarian cancer / Fang Fang ... [et al.]; title: Cancer stem cells in hepatocellular cancer / Russell C. Langan and Itzhak Avital; title: Cancer stem cells in head and neck cancer / Mark E.P. Prince and Samantha J. Davis; title: Relationship between regulatory pathways in pluripotent stem cells and human tumors / Olga Gaidarenko and Yang Xu; title: Influence of the embryonic microenvironment on tumor progression / Daniela Quail ... [et al.]; title: The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and cancer stem cells / Jonas Fuxe; title: Application of stem cell assays for the characterization of cancer stem cells / Pamela M. Willan and Gillian Farnie; title: Zebrafish as a model to study stem cells in development, disease, and cancer / Viviana Anelli, Cristina Santoriello, and Marina C. Mione; title: Imaging cancer stem cells / Paula Foster; title: Mouse models for studying normal and cancer stem cells / David A. Hess; title: Cancer stem cells and disease prognosis / Zeshaan A. Rasheed, Jeanne Kowalski, and William H. Matsui; title: Mechanisms of radioresistance in cancer stem cells / Cleo Y-F Lee and Maximilian Diehn; title: The role of ABC transporters in cancer stem cell drug resistance / Vera S. Donnenberg, Ludovic Zimmerlin, and Albert D. Donnenberg; title: Resistance to endocrine therapy in breast cancer : are breast cancer stem cells implicated? / Ciara S. O'Brien ... [et al.]; title: Future directions : cancer stem cells as therapeutic targets / Alysha K. Croker and Alison L. Allan; title: Final thoughts : complexity and controversy surrounding the "cancer stem cell" paradigm / Craig Gedye, Richard P. Hill, and Laurie Ailles.