DNA methylation and cancer therapy
By: [edited by] Moshe Szyf
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Series: Medical intelligence unit; Medical intelligence unit (Unnumbered : 2003)
Publisher: Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com; Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Georgetown, Tex; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Molecular aspects; DNA; Treatment; Cancer; Methylation
Notes: Title from ebook title screen (viewed Feb. 4, 2005).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: DNA methylation : three decades in search of function / Aharon Razin; title: Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation : relationships between DNA methylation, histone modification, and chromatin structure / Keith D. Robertson; title: DNA hypo- vs. hypermethylation in cancer : tumor specificity, tumor progression, and therapeutic implications / Melanie Ehrlich and Guanchao Jiang; title: DNA methylation in urological cancers / Wolfgang A. Schulz and Hans-Helge Seifert; title: DNA methylation in colorectal cancer / Jeremy R. Jass ... [et al.]; title: CpG island hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes in human cancer : concepts, methodologies and uses / Michel Herranz and Manel Esteller; title: The loss of methyl groups in DNA of tumor cells and tissues : the immunochemical approach / Alain Niveleau ... [et al.]; title: Identifying clinicopathological association of DNA hypermethylation in cancers using CpG island microarrays / Susan H. Wei ... [et al.]; title: Methylation analysis in cancer : (epi)genomic fast track from discovery to clinical routine / Carolina Haefliger, Sabine Maier and Alexander Olek; title: Regulation of DNA methyltransferases in cancer / Nancy Detich and Moshe Szyf; title: Inhibition of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation allows DNA hypermethylation / Anna Reale ... [et al.]; title: The role of active demethylation in cancer and its therapeutic potential / Moshe Szyf ... [et al.]; title: Purine analogues and their role in methylation and cancer chemotherapy / Katherine L. Seley and Sylvester L. Mosley; title: DNA methyltransferase inhibitors : paving the way for epigenetic cancer therapeutics / Gregory K. Reid and A. Robert MacLeod; title: Preclinical and clinical studies on 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine, a potent inhibitor of DNA methylation, in cancer therapy / Richard L. Momparler; title: Anticancer gene therapy by in vivo DNA electrotransfer of MBD2 antisense / Pascal Bigey and Daniel Scherman.