Signal transduction mechanisms in cancer /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grunicke, Hans, 1935-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : R.G. Landes, 1995.
Series:Molecular biology intelligence unit.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Mechanisms underlying growth autonomy
  • Autocrine cycles
  • Signaling by constitutively active or overexpressed growth factor receptors
  • Post-receptor signaling in cancer
  • Growth factor receptor subtypes
  • Signaling through serpentine R7G receptors
  • Signaling through receptors with intrinsic protein tyrosine kinase activity
  • Signaling by hematopoietic cytokine receptors
  • Signal transduction by lymphocyte antigen receptors
  • Altered post-receptor signaling by receptor tyrosine kinases, cytokine and antigen receptors in tumors
  • Signals leading to growth inhibition
  • Uncontrolled cell proliferation as a result of deleted or mutated tumor suppressor genes
  • Cell cycle and cancer.
  • Programmed cell death and malignant transformation
  • Signals involved in tumor promotion and progression
  • Tumor promotion
  • Tumor progression
  • Angiogenesis
  • Invasion and metastasis
  • Cellular signaling as a target in tumor chemotherapy
  • Rationale, selectivity, cytotoxic or cytostatic effects
  • Growth factor antagonists and growth factor receptor blockers
  • Bombesin/GRP antagonists
  • Suramin and related polyanionic receptor blockers.
  • Somatostatin analogues
  • Receptors encoded by the erbB or erbB-2 proto-oncogenes as targets
  • Receptor-tyrosine kinases as targets
  • Inhibitors acting at the post-receptor level
  • SH2-, SH3-, and PH-domains as targets
  • Ras as a target
  • Phospholipases as targets
  • Ca(2+)-channels as targets
  • Phosphatidylinositol-3-kinases (PI3K) as a target
  • Protein kinase C as a target
  • cAMP-dependent protein kinases and cAMP-specific phosphodiesterases as targets
  • c-myc as a target
  • Tumor angiogenesis as a target
  • Induction of programmed cell death.