Targeting Autophagy in Cancer Therapy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yang, Jin-Ming (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Current Cancer Research,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.

This volume will detail the current state and perspectives of autophagy-based cancer therapy. Covering a wide range of topics, it will include an overview of autophagy as a therapeutic target in cancer, autophagy modulators as cancer therapeutic agents, implications of micro-RNA-regulated autophagy...

Table of Contents:

• Autophagy as a Therapeutic Target in Cancer.-Autophagy in Cancer Cells vs Cancer Tissues: two different stories
• Small-Molecule Regulators of Autophagy as Potential Anti-Cancer Therapy
• Regulation of autophagy by microRNAs: Implications in cancer therapy
• Targeting PI3-kinases in modulating autophagy and anti-cancer therapy
• Adult and Cancer Stem Cells:Perspectives on Autophagic Fate Determinations and Molecular Intervention
• Role of autophagy in tumor progression and regression.