Chemokines and cancer /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rollins, Barrett J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [1999]
Series:Contemporary cancer research.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Chemokine physiology
  • The function of chemokines in health and disease
  • Chemokine receptors and ligand specificity: understanding the enigma
  • Pt. 2. Tumor infiltration by leukocytes
  • Tumors as a paradigm for the in vivo role of chemokines in leukocyte recruitment
  • Novel monocyte chemoattractants in cancer
  • Pt. 3. Modulation of host responses to cancer
  • Natural killer cell-chemokine interactions: biological effects on natural killer cell trafficking and cytolysis
  • Tumor infiltration by monocytes and the antitumor effects of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1
  • Interactions between chemokines and other cytokines in host response to tumor
  • Pt. 4. Chemokines and tumor growth, metastasis, and angiogenesis
  • Chemokine modulation of tumor cell physiology
  • C-X-C chemokines and lung cancer angiogenesis
  • The role of melanoma growth-stimulatory activity in melanoma tumorigenesis and angiogenesis
  • Pt. 5. Chemokines and special malignancies
  • Chemokines and gynecologic malignancies
  • The possible role of chemokines in HPV-linked carcinogenesis
  • Chemokines and central nervous system malignancies
  • Chemokines and helicobacter pylori infection
  • Pt. 6. Chemokines and stem cell proliferation
  • Chemokines and hematopoiesis
  • Macrophage inflammatory protein-1α and stem cell inhibition.