Application of Apoptosis to Cancer Treatment

• Main Author: Sluyser, Mels (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacy.; Cancer research.; Molecular biology.; Pharmacology.; Life sciences.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Biomedicine general.; Molecular Medicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Life Sciences, general.

Novel drugs are being developed which interact with the programmed cell death (apoptotic) machinery in cancer cells, thereby causing these cells to commit suicide and to be removed from the body. Research is also directed to investigate why the cancer cells sometimes lose the ability to undergo apop...