Midkine: From Embryogenesis to Pathogenesis and Therapy
Editors: Ergüven, Mine, Muramatsu, Takashi, Bilir, Ayhan (Eds.)
Free Preview- Comprehensive coverage of old, but newly pronounced protein midkine as a promising prognostic and diagnostic biomarker, and a therapeutic agent in wide range of diseases
- Provides an information about the techniques that are used in studying midkine
- Leading experts present their latest work in addition to extensive up-to-date literature review
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Carl Edward Sagan’s (1934-1996) one of the famous quotation was “Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.“ From past to date, well-known molecules, enzymes, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates are studied in the pathogenesis of several diseases both as a diagnostic/prognostic biomarker and therapeutic agent. The underlying mechanism of unexplained diseases and failure of therapies are frequently studied with well-known biomarkers, but remain unclear in many cases. As Dr. Sagan said other keys are still waiting to be known in some forgotten corner of a body universe, we find strength to propose that one of them can be the growth factor with cytokine activity named “Midkine” This book summarizes the extensive up-to-date literature overeview with the lastest work of experts about midkine in a detailed format that conveys its role as both a pathologic factor and therapeutic agent.
- Table of contents (27 chapters)
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General Information on Midkine
Pages 3-13
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The Role of Midkine in Neural Development and Patterning
Pages 15-28
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Midkine: A Player in Innate Immunity
Pages 29-39
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Midkine/P63 Axis in Regulation of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
Pages 41-52
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Immunochemical Methods for the Detection of Midkine in Samples of Human Origin
Pages 53-67
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Midkine: From Embryogenesis to Pathogenesis and Therapy
- Editors
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- Mine Ergüven
- Takashi Muramatsu
- Ayhan Bilir
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-4234-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-4234-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-4233-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-9948-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 338
- Topics
