The Role of Sphingolipids in Cancer Development and Therapy: Volume 117

ISBN-13: 9780123942746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 312 str.

James Norris

Opis

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. This thematic volume looks at "The Role of Sphingolipids in Cancer Development and Therapy"

• Provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research
• This thematic volume looks at "The Role of Sphingolipids in Cancer Development and Therapy"
• Outstanding and original reviews

Spis treści

1. Therapeutic potential of targeting SK1 in human cancers
2. Natural products as platforms for the design of sphingolipid derived anticancer agents
3. Hypoxia, therapeutic resistance and sphingosine 1-phosphate
4. Use of acid sphingomyelinase for cancer therapy
5. Diverse functions of ceramide on cancer cell death and proliferation
6. Sphingosine kinase and cancer
7. Ceramide glycosylation catalyzed by glucosylceramide synthase and cancer drug resistance
8. Interdiction of sphingolipid metabolism to improve standard of care cancer therapies