Redox and Cancer. Part A /

• Other Authors: Townsend, Danyelle M. (Editor), Tew, Kenneth D. (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego, CA : Elsevier, 2014.
• Edition: First edition.
• Series: Advances in cancer research ; v. 122.
• Subjects: Oxidation-reduction reaction.; Cancer > Research.; Biomedical Research.; Neoplasms.; HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.; MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.; MEDICAL > Diseases.; MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.; MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.; Electronic books.

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Here, once again, outstanding and original reviews are presented on a variety of topics, including taxane-anti-androgens cross-resistance in advanced prostate cancer and proteasome i...

Table of Contents:

• Reactive oxygen species in normal and tumor stem cells / Daohong Zhou, Lijian Shao and Douglas R. Spitz
• Emerging regulatory paradigms in glutathione metabolism / Yilin Liu, Annastasia S. Hyde, Melanie A. Simpson, and Joseph J. Barycki
• Gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase: redox regulation and drug resistance / Marie H. Hanigan
• Pleiotropic functions of glutathione S-transferase P / Jie Zhang, Christina Grek, Zhi-Wei Ye, Yefim Manevich, Kenneth D. Tew and Danyelle M. Townsend
• A comparison of reversible versus irreversible protein glutathionylation / Danyelle M. Townsend, Volodymyr I. Lushchak and Arthur J.L. Cooper
• Glutathione transferases in the bioactivation of azathioprine / Olof Modén and Bengt Mannervik
• Thioredoxin and hematological malignancies / Ningfei An and Yubin Kang
• Role of the Keap1-Nrf2 pathway in cancer / Hanna M Leinonen, Emilia Kansanen, Petri Pölönen, Merja Heinäniemi and Anna-Liisa Levonen.