Research Catalog

Title

The link between inflammation and cancer : wounds that do not heal / edited by Angus G. Dalgleish, Burkhard Haefner.

Publication

New York : Springer, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Dalgleish, A. G. (Angus G.)
• Haefner, Burkhard.

Description

xii, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cancer treatment and research ; 130

Uniform Title

Cancer treatment and research ; v. 130.

Subject

• Cancer > Research
• Chemokines
• Inflammation
• Neoplasms
• Neoplasms > etiology
• Inflammation > therapy
• Cytokines

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Angus G. Dalgleish and Burkhard Haefner -- 1. Inflammation and cancer : the role of the immune response and angiogenesis / Angus G. Dalgleish and Ken O'Byrne -- 2. Chronic inflammation and pathogenesis of GI and pancreatic cancers / Lindsey N. Jackson and B. Mark Evers -- 3. Cytokines, NF-[kappa]B, microenvironment, intestinal inflammation and cancer / Arndt J. Schottelius and Harald Dinter -- 4. Regulation of NF-[kappa]B transcriptional activity / Linda Vermeulen, Wim Vanden Berghe and Guy Haegeman -- 5. The role of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment / Theresa L. Whiteside -- 6. Tumor-microenvironment interactions : the selectin-selectin ligand axis in tumor-endothelium cross talk / Isaac P. Witz -- 7. CD95L/FasL and trail in tumour surveillance and cancer therapy / Harald Wajant -- 8. Infection & neoplastic growth 101 : the required reading for microbial pathogens aspiring to cause cancer / Jessica Bertout and Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko -- 9. Cytokines as mediators and targets for cancer cachexia / Josep M. Argiles, Silvia Busquets and Francisco J. Lopez-Soriano -- 10. Targeting NF-[kappa]B in anticancer adjunctive chemotherapy / Burkhard Haefner.

ISBN

0387262822

LCCN

• 2005934590
• 9780387262826

OCLC

• ocm62866105
• SCSB-5224825

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries