Death Receptors and Cognate Ligands in Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kalthoff, Holger (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, 49
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Molecular biology.; Oncology.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Cell Biology.; Molecular Medicine.; Biochemistry, general.

Death receptors play a central role in directing apoptosis in mammalian cells. This process of active cell death is important for a number of biological processes, e.g. for the regulation of the immune system. Death receptors are cell surface receptors that transmit apoptotic signals initiated by co...