Cellular Signaling in Health and Disease

These include the discovery of chronic inflammation as a causal factor in all of these disease classes, the appearance of reactive oxygen species as a messenger molecule that can act both positively and negatively, the propensity of proteins to misfold into aggregation- and disease-prone forms, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beckerman, Martin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
Series:Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Metabolic Syndromes
  • Energy Balance
  • Insulin Signaling and Type 2 Diabetes
  • Metabolic Program Execution and Switching
  • Cholesterol
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Chronic Inflammation
  • Redox Signaling
  • Cancer
  • The Cell Cycle
  • Cell Cycle Checkpoints and DNA Damage Repair
  • Apoptosis and Senescence
  • Epigenetics
  • Tumor Growth
  • Tumor Metabolism
  • Metastasis
  • Neurodegeneration
  • Protein Folding, Misfolding, and Aggregation
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Chaperones, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress, and the Unfolded Protein Response
  • Parkinson’s Disease
  • Huntington’s Disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis