Checkpoint Responses in Cancer Therapy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dai, Wei (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Series: Cancer Drug Discovery and Development•
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Extensive research has uncovered a set of molecular surveillance mechanisms – commonly called "checkpoints" – which tightly monitor cell-cycle processes. Today’s anticancer drug development has identified many of these cell-cycle checkpoint molecules as effective targets. Research now prom...