Anticancer Genes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Grimm, Stefan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 818
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Human genetics.; Gene therapy.; Molecular biology.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Molecular Medicine.; Cancer Research.; Gene Therapy.; Human Genetics.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

This book discusses the emergence of a new class of genes with a specific anticancer activity. These genes, recently defined as “Anticancer Genes”, are reviewed in individual chapters on their mode of action, the specific cell death signals they induce, and the status of attempts to translate them i...