Emerging cancer therapy
Subtitle: microbial approaches and biotechnological tools
By: edited by Arsenio Fialho and Ananda Chakrabarty.
Contributors: Fialho, Arsenio.; Chakrabarty, Ananda M., 1938-
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470444672
Subjects: Cancer -- Treatment; Viruses -- Therapeutic use; Bacteria -- Therapeutic use; Microbial biotechnology; Neoplasms -- therapy; Antineoplastic Agents; Bacteria -- immunology; Biotechnology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Salmonella typhimurium mutants selected to grow only in tumors and eradicate them in nude mouse models / Robert M. Hoffman; title: The use of living Listeria monocytogenes as an active immunotherapy for the treatment of cancer / John Rothman ... [et al.]; title: Bacillus Calmete-Guerin (BCG) for urothelial carcinoma of the bladder / Timothy P. Kresowik and Thomas S. Griffith; title: Live clostridia : a powerful tool in tumor biotherapy / Lieve Van Mellaert, Ming Q. Wei, and Jozef Ann; title: Bifidobacterium as a delivery system of functional gene for cancer gene therapy / Geng-Feng Fu ... [et al.]; title: Replication selective viruses for the treatment of cancer / Padma Sampath and Steve H. Thorne; title: Engineering Herpes simplex virus for cancer oncolytic virotherapy / Jason S. Buhrman, Tooba A. Cheema, and Giulia Fulci; title: Promiscuous anticancer drugs from pathogenic bacteria : rational versus intelligent drug design / Arsenio M. Fialho and Ananda M. Chakrabarty; title: Arginine Deiminase and cancer therapy / L. Feun ... [et al.]; title: Cytosine deaminase/5-fluorocytosine molecular cancer chemotherapy / Sergey A. Kaliberov and Donald J. Buchsbaum; title: Bacterial proteins against metastasis / A.M.E. Walenkamp; title: Pseudomonas exotoxin a based immunotoxins for targeted cancer therapy / Philipp Wolf and Ursula Elsesser-Beile; title: Denileukin Diftitox in novel cancer therapy / Lin-Chi Chen and Nam H. Dang; title: The application of cationic antimicrobial peptides in cancer treatment : laboratory investigations and clinical potential / Ashley Hilchie and David W. Hoskin; title: Prodiginines and their potential utility as proapoptotic anticancer agents / Neil R. Williamson ... [et al.]; title: Farnesyltransferase inhibitors of microbial origins in cancer therapy / Jingxuan Pan and Sai-Ching Jim Yeung; title: The use of RNA and CPG dna as nucleic acid-based therapeutics / Jorg Vollmer; title: The role and importance of intellectual property generation and protection in drug development / Arsenio M. Fialho and Ananda M. Chakrabarty.