Brain tumors /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ali-Osman, Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2005]
Series:Contemporary cancer research.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Epidemiology of brain tumors / Randa El-Zein, Melissa Bondy, and Margaret Wrensch
  • Molecular genetics of tumors of the central nervous system / C. David James
  • Molecular pathology of nervous system tumors / Catherine L. Nutt ... [et al.]
  • Genetic modeling of glioma formation in mice / Martin Begemann ... [et al.]
  • Biology of brain metastasis / Minsoo Kang ... [et al.]
  • Analysis of neural precursor cells in the context of origin of brain tumors, their treatment, and repair of treatment-associated damage / Mark Noble and Joerg Dietrich
  • Biology of primitive neuroectodermal tumors / John R. Hill, Shoichiro Ohta, and Mark A. Israel
  • Molecular and cellular biology of the blood-brain barrier and its characteristics in brain tumors / Helga E. de Vries ... [et al.]
  • Immune regulation in the brain : lessons from autoimmunity and implications for brain tumor therapy / Lois A. Lampson
  • Genetic pathways in the evolution of gliomas / Hiroko Ohgaki and Paul Kleihues
  • DNA damage and repair in the therapeutic response of tumors of the central nervous system / Henry S. Friedman, M. Eileen Dolan, and Francis Ali-Osman
  • Role of urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor in human glioma invasion / Sanjeeva Mohanam and Jasti S. Rao
  • Regulation of the cell cycle and apoptosis in human brain tumors / Juan Fueyo, Candelaria Gomez-Manzano, and Timothy J. McDonnell
  • Systemic chemotherapy for metastatic tumors of the central nervous system / Charles A. Conrad and W.K. Alfred Yung
  • Radiation biology and therapy of tumors of the central nervous system / Nalin Gupta ... [et al.]
  • Advances in the management of cerebral metastases / Fadi Hanbali and Raymond Sawaya
  • Immunotherapy of central nervous system tumors: contemporary cancer research / Amy B. Heimberger ... [et al.]
  • Targeting drugs to tumors of the central nervous system / Maciej S. Lesniak, James Frazier, and Henry Brem
  • Rational design and development of targeted brain tumor therapeutics / Francis Ali-Osman ... [et al.].