Checkpoint Responses in Cancer Therapy

Checkpoint Responses in Cancer Therapy

Author
Wei Dai
Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Document Type
Book
Faculty / Subject Heading
Medical Science

This book’s distinguished panel of authors takes a close look at topics ranging from the major molecular players affecting DNA synthesis and the response to DNA damage to advances made in the identification of chemical compounds capable of inhibiting individual mitotic kinases. Illuminating and authoritative, Checkpoint Responses in Cancer Therapy offers a critical summary of findings for researchers in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and a valuable resource for academic scientists in cancer research and the study of cell-cycle regulation, signal transduction and apoptosis.


Keywords: Biomedical and life sciences / DNA / Apoptosis / Biotechnology / Cancer / Cancer research / Cancer therapy / Cell / Cell cycle / Checkpoint / Chemotherapy / Development / Drug / Drug design / Drug development / Research