Inflammation and Metastasis

• Main Author: Maru, Yoshiro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Human physiology.; Immunology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Human Physiology.

This book provides the latest information on cancer metastasis from the standpoint of inflammation, especially innate immune reactions caused by endogenous mediators but not exogenous pathogens, with ideas on how to understand the complicated mechanisms of metastasis as well as to interpret therapeu...

Table of Contents:

• PART I WHAT IS INFLAMMATION
• 1 General thinking
• 2 Leukocytes
• 3 Triangle
• 4 Sterile inflammation
• PART II WHAT IS ENDOGENOUS LIGAND
• 5 Self and non-self
• 6 Field extension
• 7 Endogenous TLR4 ligands
• 8 Auto-inflammatory disorders
• PART III CANCER
• 9 Cancer in general
• 10 Basic research
• 11 Tumor microenvironment
• 12 Whole-body matter
• PART IV HOMEOSTATIC INFLAMMATION AND METASTASIS
• 13 Pre-metastasis
• 14 What is homeostasis
• 15 Explanation of metastasis
• 16 Therapeutic potential.