Death Receptors in Cancer Therapy (Cancer Drug Discovery and Development)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: December 3, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781588291721
Subjects: Oncology; Medical / Nursing; Cell receptors; Medical; Pharmacology; Molecular aspects; Biochemistry; Medical / Oncology; Cancer; Apoptosis; Cellular signal transduction
First sentence: Even after numerous reports in the early to mid-1900s of "programmed cell death" with characteristic morphological changes such as cell shrinkage and nuclear condensation and fragmentation, the importance of this process in normal cellular physiology went largely unexplored (1).