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- Contributions from leading scientists in the field will ensure access to the most reliable and up to date research and concepts (Novelty and reliability)
- Basic and translational aspects will attract basic scientists and clinicians alike
- Comprehensive color illustrations which will be helpful to scholars and students
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Cells are by nature compelled to live in groups. They develop dependence over signaling cues received from their microenvironment, in particular from other cells, whether of their own “kind” or of a different type. Therefore, communicating with these cells is a critical aspect of their behavior and fate, as they live and die normally or as they undergo disease-related pathological changes, with dramatic repercussions.
In this book, we have asked expert researchers in the field of Intercellular Communication in Cancer to provide chapters on different aspects of interaction between neighboring cells, in the context of cancer diseases. We have specifically focused our efforts on membrane-to-membrane contact-based rather than growth factors-mediated modes of intercellular communications.
The contributing authors provide an extensive overview of their respective area of specialization, with an in-depth discussion of the molecular mechanisms of cell-cell interactions, the impact on tumor progression and response to therapies, as well as the cancer diagnostic value of this scientific information.
This book aims to introduce essential aspects of the normal and pathological cellular fate and homeostasis to both scientists and clinicians, and also to provide established researchers with an update on the novelties and future directions this expanding field is witnessing.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intercellular Communication in Cancer
Editors: Mustapha Kandouz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7380-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7379-9Published: 28 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0424-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7380-5Published: 20 November 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 366
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cancer Research, Life Sciences, general