- Focuses solely on autophagy as a target in cancer therapy, for the first time
- Covers a wide range of topics such as autophagy as a therapeutic target in cancer, autophagy modulators as cancer therapeutic agents, implications of micro-RNA-regulated autophagy in cancer therapy, modulation of autophagy through targeting PI3 kinase in cancer therapy, targeting autophagy in cancer stem cells, roles of autophagy in cancer immunotherapy
- Provides an invaluable resource for basic and clinical scientists, including cancer biologists, autophagy researchers, pharmacologists, and clinical oncologists
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- About this book
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This volume will detail the current state and perspectives of autophagy-based cancer therapy. Covering a wide range of topics, it will include an overview of autophagy as a therapeutic target in cancer, autophagy modulators as cancer therapeutic agents, implications of micro-RNA-regulated autophagy in cancer therapy, modulation of autophagy through targeting PI3 kinase in cancer therapy, targeting autophagy in cancer stem cells, and roles of autophagy in cancer immunotherapy. In addition, the volume will review applications of system biology and bioinformatics approaches to discovering cancer therapeutic targets in the autophagy regulatory network.
The volume will be beneficial for a variety of basic and clinical scientists, including cancer biologists, autophagy researchers, pharmacologists, and clinical oncologists who wish to delve more deeply into this field of cancer research.
This volume will be the first book to focus solely on autophagy as a target in cancer therapy. As well, it will comprehensively discuss the roles of autophagy in most currently available cancer treatments.
- About the authors
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Jin-Ming Yang is a Professor of Pharmacology at College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Autophagy as a Therapeutic Target in Cancer
Pages 1-16
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Autophagy in Cancer Cells vs. Cancer Tissues: Two Different Stories
Pages 17-38
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Small-Molecule Regulators of Autophagy as Potential Anti-cancer Therapy
Pages 39-57
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Regulation of Autophagy by microRNAs: Implications in Cancer Therapy
Pages 59-84
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Targeting PI3-Kinases in Modulating Autophagy and Anti-cancer Therapy
Pages 85-97
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Targeting Autophagy in Cancer Therapy
- Editors
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- Jin-Ming Yang
- Series Title
- Current Cancer Research
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-42740-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-42740-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-42738-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-82651-6
- Series ISSN
- 2199-2584
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 141
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
- Topics