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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2009, 2009
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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