Advances in Cancer Stem Cell Biology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scatena, Roberto (Editor), Mordente, Alvaro (Editor), Giardina, Bruno (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Advances in Cancer Stem Cell Biology informs the reader about both basic and potential clinical applications of an intriguing subpopulation of cancer cells -defined in different way as cancer stem cells, cancer stem like cells, tumor maintaining cells and so on- which are deeply changing some fundam...

Table of Contents:

• Preface.- Cancer Stem cell. A revisitation of “anaplasia” concept
• Stem cells and cancer stem cells- new insights
• Molecular biology of cancer stem cells
• Biomarkers of cancer stem cells
• Cancer stem cell and the microenvironment
• Leukemia stem cells
• Cancer stem cell and the central nervous system
• Cancer stem cells and glioblastoma multiforme. Pathophysiological and clinical aspects
• Breast cancer stem cells
• Colon cancer stem cells
• Liver Tumor-Initiating Cells / Cancer Stem Cells: Past Studies, Current Status and Future Perspectives
• Pancreatic cancer stem cells
• Cancer stem cell and renal carcinoma
• Cancer stem cells. Proteomic approaches for new potential diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers
• Cancer stem cells. An innovative therapeutic approach
• Cancer stem cell and ATP binding cassette. Which role in chemoresistance?
• Stem cell and cancer stem cells. Biological and clinical interrelationships
• Cancer stem cell and antitumor immunity
• Index.