Bioengineering and Cancer Stem Cell Concept

• Main Authors: Pavlovic, Mirjana (Author), Balint, Bela (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Cancer research.; Bioinformatics.; Stem cells.; Computer Science.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Stem Cells.; Cancer Research.

This book explores the role of cancer stem cells in the diagnosis, treatment, and cure of cancers. This book also tackles novel methodology for cancer stem cell marker identification, cancer stem cell respiration and metabolism, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms including DNA methylation, and mi-RNA...

Table of Contents:

• Normal Stem Cell: Entity or State?
• Normal Stem Cells: Biology, Collection/Harvesting, and Ex Vivo Manipulations
• A Concept of Cancer Stem Cells: Entity and Theories
• Cancer Stem Cell Markers: Classification and Their Significance in Cancer Stem Cells
• Epigenetic Mechanisms Involved in Cancer Stem Cell Profiles
• Mitochondrial Respiration of Cancer Stem Cells
• Metabolism in Cancer Stem Cells
• Different Approaches for Anticancer/Antitumor Therapy
• Targeted Cancer Stem Cell Therapy
• Bioengineered CSC Tumors
• Summary on the Role of Bioengineering in the Cancer Stem Cell Paradigm.