Metabolism in cancer

Author(s)

    • Cramer, Thorsten
    • Schmitt, Clemens A.

Bibliographic Information

Metabolism in cancer

Thorsten Cramer, Clemens A. Schmitt, editors

(Recent results in cancer research, 207)

Springer, c2016

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

This textbook presents concise chapters written by internationally respected experts on various important aspects of cancer-associated metabolism, offering a comprehensive overview of the central features of this exciting research field. The discovery that tumor cells display characteristic alterations of metabolic pathways has significantly changed our understanding of cancer: while the first description of tumor-specific changes in cellular energetics was published more than 90 years ago, the causal significance of this observation for the pathogenesis of cancer was only discovered in the post-genome era. The first 10 years of the twenty-first century were characterized by rapid advances in our grasp of the functional role of cancer-specific metabolism as well as the underlying molecular pathways. Various unanticipated interrelations between metabolic alterations and cancer-driving pathways were identified and currently await translation into diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Yet the speed, quantity, and complexity of these new discoveries make it difficult for researchers to keep up to date with the latest developments, an issue this book helps to remedy.

Table of Contents

Metabolic requirements of cellular proliferation.- The role of myc in cancer metabolism.- Metabolic control of inflammation.- Metabolism-targeting therapies.- The role of pH regulation and hypoxia in cancer progression.- Metabolic profiling in breast cancer.- Imaging of tumor metabolism.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB22296615
  • ISBN
    • 9783319421162
  • LCCN
    2016944405
  • Country Code
    sz
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    [Switzerland]
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 266 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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