The Role of Sphingolipids in Cancer Development and Therapy

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."

James S. Norris (Volume editor)

9780123942746, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 21 February 2013

312 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.51 kg

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"

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
   

Subject Areas: Microbiology [non-medical PSG], Molecular biology [PSD], Genetics [non-medical PSAK], Oncology [MJCL]