Assessment of Cell Proliferation in Clinical Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Regulation of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

   • R. F. Brooks

   Pages 1-26

3. Growth Factors, Oncogenes and Tumour Suppressor Genes

   • D. P. Hollywood, N. R. Lemoine

   Pages 27-43

4. The Kinetic Organisation of Tissues

   • B. Ansari, P. A. Hall

   Pages 45-62

5. Basic Methods for Assessing Cellular Proliferation

   • R. Dover

   Pages 63-81

6. Mitosis Counting

   • C. M. Quinn, N. A. Wright

   Pages 83-94

7. Flow Cytometry

   • R. S. Camplejohn, J. C. Macartney

   Pages 95-111

8. Measurement of Cell Proliferation Using Bromodeoxyuridine

   • G. D. Wilson, N. J. McNally

   Pages 113-139

9. The Application of Immunohistochemistry in Assessment of Cellular Proliferation

   • C. C.-W. Yu, A. L. Woods, D. A. Levison

   Pages 141-159

10. Nucleolar Organiser Regions

    • J. C. E. Underwood

    Pages 161-175

11. Clinical Aspects of Assessing Cell Proliferation

    • S. M. O’Reilly, M. A. Richards

    Pages 177-191

12. Cell Proliferation and the Principles of Cancer Therapy

    • W. M. Gregory

    Pages 193-205

13. Back Matter

    Pages 207-210

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The only book to attempt any perspective on methods of assessing cell proliferation is published to satisfy the growing interest amongst pathologists and clinicians in areas which have for more than three decades been the preserve of experimental biologists

• Cell proliferation
• Clinical applications
• Techniques
• cancer
• cell
• cell cycle
• flow cytometry
• genes
• methodology
• oncogenes
• regulation
• tissue
• tumor

• Department of Histopathology, UMDS, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK

  Peter A. Hall

• Department of Histopathology, UMDS, Guy’s Hospital, London, UK

  David A. Levison

• Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, UK

  Nicholas A. Wright

• Department of Histopathology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

  Nicholas A. Wright

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