DNA repair in cancer therapy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Panasci, Lawrence C., Alaoui-Jamali, Moulay A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2004]
Series:Cancer drug discovery and development.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Clinical resistance to alkylators : status and perspective
  • Role of nonhomologous end-joining and recombinational DNA repair in resistance to nitrogen mustard and DNA crosslinking agents
  • Repair of DNA interstrand crosslinks produced by cancer chemotherapeutic drugs
  • Chemosensitization to platinum-based anticancer drugs : current trends and future prospects
  • Regulation of DNA repair and apoptosis by p53 and its impact on alkylating drug resistance of tumor cells
  • Stress-activated signal transduction pathways in DNA damage response : implications for repair, arrest, and therapeutic interventions
  • Overcoming resistance to alkylating agents by inhibitors of O⁶-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase
  • Cellular protection against the antitumor drug bleomycin
  • Potential role of PARP inhibitors in cancer treatment and cell death
  • Relationship among DNA repair genes, cellular radiosensitivity, and the response of tumors and normal tissues to radiotherapy
  • Strand-break repair and radiation resistance
  • V(D)J recombination and DNA double-strand-break repair : from immune deficiency to tumorigenesis
  • Inherited disorders of genomic instability and cancer susceptibility
  • Role of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in DNA repair and potential impact on therapeutics
  • Genetic variations in DNA repair : their implications in human cancer risk, prevention, and therapy