Editor: Atta-ur-Rahman / Khurshid Zaman

Topics in Anti-Cancer Research

Volume 3

eBook: US $129 Special Offer (PDF + Printed Copy): US $295
Printed Copy: US $230
Library License: US $516
ISSN: 2468-5860 (Print)
ISSN: 2213-3585 (Online)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-909-6 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-908-9 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2014
DOI: 10.2174/97816080590891140301

Introduction

This is the third volume of the Patent eBook Series entitled Topics in Anti-Cancer Research. This eBook comprises updated reviews on topics relevant to modern cancer research published in the journal Recent Patents on Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery.

The comprehensive range of themes covered in this third volume will be of benefit to clinicians, scientists and R&D experts looking for new targets for the prevention of cancer and discovery of drugs for the treatment of different cancer types. Regulation of tumor cells by TRAIL receptors, development of anti- cancer drugs & immunomodulatory drugs, molecular studies of adrenocortical cancer, role of inhibitors of inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase in cancer, recent updates in glioblastoma stem cells, latest approaches for cancer gene therapy and metabolic therapy for cancer were reviewed and updated. The role of pH regulation and application of hyperthermia, thiosemicarbazone derivatives, tamoxifen-based therapies for cancer treatment andproteome-based complex therapy of tumors, calcium signaling and angiogenesis, antineoplastic role of GHRH antagonists and therapeutic applications in human tumors and clinical oncology have been extensively discussed in the light of recent innovations.

The topics covered in this third volume will be valuable for those interested in scientists interests in methods for the prevention of cancer as well its management.

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Contributors

Editor(s):
Atta-ur-Rahman / Khurshid Zaman
University of Cambridge
UK




Contributor(s):
Bojana Boh
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering
Askerceva 12
Ljubljana
Slovenia


Javier Camacho
Department of Pharmacology
Avenida Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508.,
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N.
México


Isabel M.M. Ferreira
CENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciência dosMateriais
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2829-516
Caparica
Portugal


Reema Gabrani
Department of Biotechnology
Jaypee Institute ofInformation Technology,
A- 10, Sector- 62
NOIDA
Uttar Pradesh, 201307
India


Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk
Department of Clinical Endocrinology,
Jagiellonian University, Medical College
ul. Kopernika 17, 31-501
Kraków
Poland


Ander Matheu
Head of Neuroncology Group
Biodonostia Institute
Paseo Dr. Begiristain s/n, E-20014 San Sebastian
Spain


Olivier Micheau
INSERM, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy
University of Bourgogne
U866, Dijon, F-21079
France


Narayana S.H.N. Moorthy
REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química eBioquímica
Faculdade de Ciências,
Universidade do Porto, s/n
Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto
Portugal


Luca Munaron
Department of Life Sciences & Systems Biology
Center for Complex Systems in Molecular Biology
and Medicine (SysBioM) Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces Centre of Excellence (NIS)
University of Torino, Italy, Via Accademia Albertina 13,10123
Torino,
Italy


Riccardo Petrelli
School of Pharmacy
University of Camerino,
via S. Agostino 1, 62032
Camerino (MC)
Italy


José Prados
Institute of Biopathology and Regenerative Medicine (IBIMER),
Department of Anatomy and Embryology, School of Medicine,
University of Granada, 18071
Granada
Spain


Stephan J Reshkin
Department of Bioscience
Biotechnology and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari
Bari, 70126
Italy


Claudia Scotti
Department of Molecular Medicine
Unit of Immunology andGeneral Pathology, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 9
Pavia, 27100
Italy


Henryk Stepien
Department of Immunoendocrinology
Chair of Endocrinology, Medical University of Lodz, ul. Sterlinga 3, 91-425
Lodz
Poland


Tai-Sung Lee
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Center for Integrative Proteomics Research
Rutgers University, 174 Frelinghuysen Rd
Piscataway
NJ, 08854-8076
USA


Maria V. Zhukova
NeuroVita Clinic of Restorative and Interventional Neurology and Therapy
23 Kashirskoe Shosse
Moscow, 115478
Russia




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