Mitochondria and Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Costello, Leslie (Editor), Singh, Keshav (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Laboratory medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Molecular biology.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Medical Microbiology.; Molecular Medicine.; Cell Biology.; Biomedicine general.; Laboratory Medicine.

Nearly a century of scientific research has revealed that mitochondrial dysfunction is one of the most common and consistent phenotypes of cancer cells. A number of notable differences in the mitochondria of normal and cancer cells have been described. These include differences in mitochondrial meta...