Stem Cells and Prostate Cancer

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cramer, Scott D. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Cell Biology.; Biomedicine general.

Recent evidence demonstrates that normal prostate tissue contains stem cells.  There is also accumulating evidence that prostate cancer contains a population of cells with stem cell-like characteristics referred to as cancer stem cells, or tumor initiating cells.  Both the normal prostate stem cell...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Stem Cells and Prostate Development
• Isolation and Characterization of Prostate Stem Cells
• Prostate tumor initiating cells
• TIC Markers and methods of characterization
• Genetic Control of Self Renewal of the TIC
• Therapeutic targeting of the prostate TIC.- The prostate stem cell niche.- Tumor stroma control of the prostate TIC.- Targeting the prostate stem cell for chemoprevention.- Stem cell models for functional validation of prostate cancer genes
• Index .