Proteases in Human Diseases
This book bridges the gap between fundamental research and biomedical and pharmacological applications on proteases. It represents a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted field of proteases in cellular environment and highlights the recently elucidated functions of complex proteolytic systems i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Springer Nature Singapore
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Matrix metalloproteases in breast carcinoma, immunohistology and prognosis
- 2. Matrix metalloproteases in parasite infection
- 3. Cysteine cathepsins: In health and rheumatoid arthritis
- 4. Protective role of antiproteases in radiation induced damage
- 5. Role of proteases in the regulation of N-myristoyltransferase
- 6. Proteases in cancer: Potential therapeutic targets
- 7. MMPs in oral squamous cell carcinoma
- 8. Caspase regulatory mechanisms: Implications in pathogenesis and therapeutics
- 9. Physiological and pathological functions of mitochondrial proteases
- 10. Proteases of parasitic helminths: their metabolic role in establishment of infection in the host
- 11. Cysteine proteases of parasitic helminths
- 12. targeting proteases in urine for bladder cancer diagnosis
- 13. Intramembrane cleaving proteases (ICLiPs), particularly the gamma secretase protease and its role in neurodegeneration, cancer and innate immune signalling
- 14. Contribution of matrix metalloproteases in cardiovascular diseases
- 15. OPG/RANKL-protease axis in cardiometabolic diseases
- 16. Proteases and protease inhibitors in male reproduction
- 17. The role of MMP-2 and -9 in embryonic neural crest cells and their derivatives
- 18. Proteolytic ubiquitin like proteins
- 19. C.albicans aspartic proteases: role of these enzymes in degradation of crucial human host proteins at the place of infection and a possible implications of the protease action for propagation of infection.
- 20. MMPs in cancer
- 21. Pathophysiological roles played by proteases of Psedomonas aeruginosa: crucial multifunctional molecules involved in the host infection
- 22. Role of proteases on activating cell death pathways
- 23. varying faces of matrix metalloproteinases in cardiovascular diseases
- 24. kallikreins and kallikrein related peptides (KLKs) in health and disease
- 25. Endogenous proteases in tumoral progression