Overview
- Provides in-depth insights into basic molecular functions of sphingolipids
- Describes novel treatment options
- Together with Volume 216, represents a unique, comprehensive collection on important aspects of sphingolipids’ basic biology, functioning and applied research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology (HEP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basic Mechanisms
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Front Matter
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Drug Development
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Erich Gulbins studied medicine at Heidelberg University, Germany, Guy’s Hospital in London, UK and the Medical School in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He received his MD from Heidelberg University in 1992. From 1992 to 1994 he was a clinical trainee and postdoctoral fellow at the University of San Diego’s Department of Rheumatology and at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, USA. From 1994 to 2000 he held a Research Scientist and Assistant Professor position at the Institute of Physiology, University of Tübingen, Germany, where, in 1996, he became Professor for Physiology (Habilitation) at the Faculty of Medicine. Between 2000 and 2002 he served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Since 2001 he has been Full Professor and Acting Chair at the University of Duisburg-Essen’s Department of Molecular Biology in Essen, Germany.
Irina Petrache studied Medicine at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, she received her MD in 1992. From 1992 to 1996 she was a clinical trainee and postdoctoral research fellow at the Saint Luke´s Medical Center (now Saint Vincent) Case Western Reverse University, Cleveland, OH, USA . From 1996 to 2000 she served as research scientist and clinical fellow in pulmonary and critical care at the John Hopkin´s University School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. From 2000 to 2003 she was instructor of Medicine and from 2000 to 2006 Co-Director of the Sarcoidosis Clinic, John Hopkin´s University School of Medicine, Baltimore. Since 2006 Irina Petrache has been Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Indiana´s Department of Medicine and holds the Floyd and Reba Smith Chair in Respiratory Disease and has as well been Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Department of Biochemistryand Molecular Biology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sphingolipids: Basic Science and Drug Development
Editors: Erich Gulbins, Irina Petrache
Series Title: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1368-4
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Wien 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-1367-7Published: 23 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-1683-8Published: 22 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-1368-4Published: 11 April 2013
Series ISSN: 0171-2004
Series E-ISSN: 1865-0325
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 259
Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Membrane Biology, Cancer Research, Molecular Medicine, Cell Biology, Oncology