Keya Chaudhuri • S.N. Chatterjee 2009 To start with, we feel that we should explain why the book has been entitled Cholera Toxins. In fact, the enterotoxin secreted by Vibrio cholerae, which is primarily responsible for causation of the disease, is conventionally known as or referred to as cholera toxin, or CT. By using the word “toxins” (in […]

Edited by Zahid H. Siddik 2009 Much work over the last two decades has firmly established that loss of cell cycle checkpoint regulation, and resultant unabated cellular proliferation, is an inherent characteristic of cancer. This loss can occur through aberration in any one single component of the many signal transduction pathways that orchestrate checkpoint regulation, and results in either a failure to […]

Regine Eibl • Dieter Eibl • Ralf Pörtner Gerardo Catapano • Peter Czermak 2009 Principles and Practice The completion of the Human Genome Project and the rapid progress in cell biology and biochemical engineering, are major forces driving the steady increase of approved biotech products, especially biopharmaceuticals, in the market. Today mammalian cell products (“products from cells”), primarily […]

Edited by G. Britton S. Liaaen-Jensen H. Pfander 2009 More than twenty years after the idea of this Carotenoids book series was first discussed, we finally reach the end of the project with Volume 5, which covers the functions and actions of carotenoids in human nutrition and health. In 1971, in Isler’s book Carotenoids, functions of carotenoids and […]

George G. Chen · Paul B.S. Lai Editors 2009 Apoptosis in Cancer The role of apoptosis in cancer development and emerging treatment strategies has rapidly expanded over the past few years. The novel discovery in the apoptotic pathways and their relevant molecules provides us not only the knowledge how tumors develop but also the opportunity to design new […]

Donald Tindall l James Mohler Editors 2009