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Cell Fusion in Health and Disease

II: Cell Fusion in Disease

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Dittmar

    1. Inst. Immunologie, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany

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  2. Kurt S. Zänker

    1. Institute of Immunologie, University of Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany

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  • 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 950)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Thomas Dittmar, Kurt S. Zänker
    Pages 1-3

  3. Horizontal Gene Transfers with or without Cell Fusions in All Categories of the Living Matter

    • Joseph G. Sinkovics
    Pages 5-89

  4. Class III Viral Membrane Fusion Proteins

    • Marija Backovic, Theodore S. Jardetzky
    Pages 91-101

  5. Human Trophoblast in Trisomy 21: A Model for Cell–Cell Fusion Dynamic Investigation

    • André Malassiné, Guillaume Pidoux, Pascale Gerbaud, Jean Louis Frendo, Danièle Evain-Brion
    Pages 103-112

  6. Cell Fusion and Hyperactive Osteoclastogenesis in Multiple Myeloma

    • Franco Silvestris, Sabino Ciavarella, Sabino Strippoli, Franco Dammacco
    Pages 113-128

  7. Cell Fusion Hypothesis of the Cancer Stem Cell

    • Xin Lu, Yibin Kang
    Pages 129-140

  8. Expression of Macrophage Antigens by Tumor Cells

    • Ivan Shabo, Joar Svanvik
    Pages 141-150

  9. Leukocyte-Cancer Cell Fusion: Initiator of the Warburg Effect in Malignancy?

    • Rossitza Lazova, Ashok Chakraborty, John M. Pawelek
    Pages 151-172

  10. Cell Fusion, Drug Resistance and Recurrence CSCs

    • Christa Nagler, Kurt S. Zänker, Thomas Dittmar
    Pages 173-182

  11. The Role of Microvesicles in Malignancies

    • Erna Pap
    Pages 183-199

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 201-203
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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

  • Inst. Immunologie, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany

    Thomas Dittmar

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

    Kurt S. Zänker

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cell Fusion in Health and Disease

  • Book Subtitle: II: Cell Fusion in Disease

  • Editors: Thomas Dittmar, Kurt S. Zänker

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0782-5

  • 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: 978-94-007-0781-8Published: 22 April 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3596-5Published: 29 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0782-5Published: 20 April 2011

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 204

  • Topics: Biomedicine general, Cell Biology, Membrane Biology

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