Epigenetics and Cancer, Part A
- 1st Edition, Volume 70 - October 14, 2010
- Editors: Zdenko Herceg, Toshikazu Ushijima
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 8 0 8 6 6 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 8 0 8 6 7 - 7
Genes interact with the environment, experience, and biology of the brain to shape an animal’s behavior. This latest volume in Advances in Genetics, organized according to the mo… Read more
Genes interact with the environment, experience, and biology of the brain to shape an animal’s behavior. This latest volume in Advances in Genetics, organized according to the most widely used model organisms, describes the latest genetic discoveries in relation to neural circuit development and activity.
- Explores the latest topics in neural circuits and behavior research in zebrafish, drosophila, C.elegans, and mouse models
- Includes methods for testing with ethical, legal, and social implications
- Critically analyzes future prospects
Geneticists, molecular biologists, neurobiologists
- Introduction, objectives of the book
- DNA methylation and cancer
- Histone modifications and cancer
- Epigenetics and miRNAs in human cancer
- Interplay between different epigenetic mechanisms
- Genomic imprinting and cancer
- Epigenetic code and stem cells
- Inheritance of epigenetic aberrations (constitutional epimutations) in cancer susceptibility
- Cancer epigenome
- Identification of driver methylation by epigenomic analysis
- Epigenetic driver of genetic alterations
- DNA demethylating agents and epigenetic therapy of cancer
- Histone modification therapy of cancer
Zdenko Herceg and Toshikazu Ushijima
Section I. Basic epigenetic mechanisms in the regulation of critical cellular processes
Manel Esteller
Zdenko Herceg
George A Calin
Rabih Murr
Section II. Epigenetic events underlying biological phenomena
Eamonn Maher
Yasuhiro Yamada
Megan Hitchins
Section III. Cancer epigenome
Stephan Beck
Gerd Pfeifer
Minoru Toyota
Section VI. Epigenetic therapy and epigenetic drugs
Mani Samson and Zdenko Herceg
Severio Minucci
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 70
- Published: October 14, 2010
- Language: English
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