
Growth Factors and Their Receptors in Cell Differentiation, Cancer and Cancer Therapy
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Key Features
- Provides a fundamental understanding of the basic functions of growth factors and their receptors, describing how they are linked in biological processes
- Aids the development of therapeutic treatments for cancer
- Focuses on the interrelationships and convergence of growth factors and their receptors in development and pathogenesis and encourages greater cooperation and integration in the areas of developmental, cancer and cancer therapeutic research
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Table of Contents
1. Convergence of growth factor signalling pathways in developmental systems and pathogenesis
2. Growth factor families
3. TGF-β family growth factors in differentiation and morphogenesis
4. Vascular endothelial growth factor
5. The hepatocyte growth Factor
6. The platelet derived growth factor family
7. Nerve Growth Factors
8. Insulin-like growth factors
9. Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF)
10. Thrombospondins
11. Cytokines
12. Growth factor and hedgehog signalling pathways meet in developmental systems
13. Epidermal Growth Factors and their signalling systems
14. Growth factors of the EGF family
15. The fibroblast growth factor family
16. Intracellular receptor binding growth factors
17. Androgens and androgen receptors (AR) in development, differentiation and neoplasia
18. Vitamin D3 in cell proliferation, apoptosis and differentiation
19. Retinoids in development and pattern formation
20. Oestrogens and progesterone in normal physiology and neoplasia
21. Glucocorticoid signalling in normal and aberrant physiology
Product details
- No. of pages: 368
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2011
- Published: July 12, 2011
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780123878205
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123878199
About the Author
Gajanan Sherbet
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