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Cell Fusion in Health and Disease

I: Cell Fusion in Health

  • Up-to-date information about current knowledge in cell fusion
  • Up-to-date information about cell fusion mediating molecules
  • Comparison of cell fusion in physiological and pathophysiological processes
  • Cell fusion becomes an interesting cellular feature as proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis and autophagy

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 713)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Introduction

    • Thomas Dittmar, Kurt S. Zänker
    Pages 1-3
  3. Heterochronic Control of AFF-1-Mediated Cell-to-Cell Fusion in C. elegans

    • Lilach Friedlander-Shani, Benjamin Podbilewicz
    Pages 5-11
  4. Role of SNAREs in Membrane Fusion

    • Bhanu P. Jena
    Pages 13-32
  5. Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Mammalian Cell Fusion

    • Xiaofeng Zhou, Jeffrey L. Platt
    Pages 33-64
  6. Membrane Fusions During Mammalian Fertilization

    • Bart M. Gadella, Janice P. Evans
    Pages 65-80
  7. Trophoblast Fusion

    • Berthold Huppertz, Martin Gauster
    Pages 81-95
  8. Macrophage Fusion and Multinucleated Giant Cells of Inflammation

    • Amy K. McNally, James M. Anderson
    Pages 97-111
  9. Molecular Mechanisms of Myoblast Fusion Across Species

    • Adriana Simionescu, Grace K. Pavlath
    Pages 113-135
  10. Cell Fusion and Tissue Regeneration

    • Manuel Álvarez-Dolado, Magdalena Martínez-Losa
    Pages 161-175
  11. Dendritic Cell-Tumor Cell Fusion Vaccines

    • Walter T. Lee
    Pages 177-186
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 187-189

About this book

Although cell fusion is an omnipresent process in life, to date considerably less is still known about the mechanisms and the molecules being involved in this biological phenomenon in higher organisms. In Cell Fusion in Health and Disease Vol 1 & Vol 2 leading experts will present up-to-date overviews about cell fusion in physiological and patho-physiological processes, which further covers the current knowledge about cell fusion-mediating molecules. Volume 1 deals with Cell Fusion in Health and will cover aspects of cell fusion in fertilization, placentation, in C. elegans, in skeletal muscle development and tissue repair, and the use of cell fusion for cellular reprogramming and cancer vaccine development. Volume 2 focuses on Cell Fusion in Disease with a particular emphasis on the role of cell fusion in cancer development and progression. Thus, Cell Fusion in Health and Disease Vol 1 & Vol 2 represents a state-of-the-art work for researchers, physicians or professionals being interested in the biological phenomenon of cell fusion and beyond.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Witten/Herdecke Institute of Immunology, Witten, Germany

    Thomas Dittmar, Kurt S. Zänker

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cell Fusion in Health and Disease

  • Book Subtitle: I: Cell Fusion in Health

  • Editors: Thomas Dittmar, Kurt S. Zänker

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0763-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0762-7Published: 28 March 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3571-2Published: 21 April 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0763-4Published: 23 March 2011

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 192

  • Topics: Biomedicine general, Cell Biology, Membrane Biology

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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