Programmed cell death in cancer progression and therapy
By: [edited by] Roya Khosravi-Far, Eileen White.
Contributors: Khosravi-Far, Roya.; White, Eileen
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 615
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Berlin]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781402065538; 9781402065545
Subjects: Apoptosis; Neoplasms -- physiopathology; Neoplasms -- etiology; Neoplasms -- therapy; Apoptosis; Cell death
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cell death : history and future / Zahra Zakeri and Richard A. Lockshin; title: Caspase mechanisms / Guy S. Salvesen and Stefan J. Riedl; title: The mitochondrial death pathway / Anas Chalah and Roya Khosravi-Far; title: Apoptotic pathways in tumor progression and therapy / Armelle Melet ... [et al.]; title: Therapeutic targeting of death pathways in cancer : mechanisms for activating cell death in cancer cells / Ting-Ting Tan and Eileen White; title: Overcoming resistance to apoptosis in cnacer therapy / Peter Hersey, Xu Dong Zhang, and Nizar Mhaidat; title: Trail receptors : targets for cancer therapy / Robin C. Humphreys and Wendy Halpern; title: Rational design of therapeutics targeting the BCL-2 family : are some cancer cells primed for death but waiting for a final push? / Victoria Del Gaizo Moore and Anthony Letai; title: Autophagy and tumor suppression : recent advancesin understanding the link between autophagic cell death pathways and tumor development / Shani Bialik and Adi Kimchi; title: Regulation of programmed cell death by the P53 pathway / Kageaki Kuribayashi and Wafik S. El-Deiry; title: Regulation of programmed cell death by NF-[kappa]B and its role in tumorigenesis and therapy / Yongjun Fan ... [et al.]; title: Targeting proteasomes as therapy in multiple myeloma / Dharminer Chauhan, Teru Hideshima, and Kenneth C. Anderson; title: Histone deacetylase inhibitors : mechanisms and clinical significance in cancer : HDAC inhibitor-induced apoptosis / Sharmila Shankar and Rakesh K. Srivastava; title: RNA interference and cancer : endogenous pathways and therapeutic approaches / Derek M. Dykxhoorn, Dipanjan Chowdhury, and Judy Lieberman; title: Cancer stem cells and impaired apoptosis / Zainab Jagani and Roya Khosravi-Far.