Lymphangiogenesis in Cancer Metastasis

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Stacker, Steven A. (Συγγραφέας), Achen, Marc G. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Έκδοση: 1.
• Σειρά: Cancer Metastasis – Biology and Treatment, 13
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Oncology.; Cytokines.; Growth factors.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Cytokines and Growth Factors.

Lymphangiogenesis and Cancer Metastasis introduces the new field of lymphatic vessel growth and development, and its relationship to the metastatic spread of cancer cells. The book covers all aspects of this new field from the fundamental role that protein growth factors and their receptors play in...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Lymphangiogenesis in Health and Disease – An Overview
• Insight into Lymphatic Vasculature Development
• New Animal Models of Lymphangiogenesis
• Molecular Mechanisms of Lymph Node Metastasis
• The Clinical Significance of Lymph-Node Metastasis
• Clinicopathological Analysis of Lymphatic Vessels and of Lymphangiogenesis in Human Cancer
• Lymphangiogenesis and Imaging of the Lymphatics in Cancer
• Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
• Kaposi’s Sarcoma and the Lymphatics
• Lymphatic Physiology and Function in Healthy Tissue and Cancer.