Redox and Cancer. Part A /
edited by Danyelle M. Townsend, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, Kenneth D. Tew, Professor and Chairman, Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology, John C. West Chair of Cancer Research, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
- First edition.
- 2014.
- 1 online resource (351 pages) : illustrations (some color).
- Advances in cancer research, volume 122 0065-230X ; .
- Advances in cancer research ; v. 122. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reactive oxygen species in normal and tumor stem cells / Daohong Zhou, Lijian Shao and Douglas R. Spitz -- Emerging regulatory paradigms in glutathione metabolism / Yilin Liu, Annastasia S. Hyde, Melanie A. Simpson, and Joseph J. Barycki -- Gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase: redox regulation and drug resistance / Marie H. Hanigan -- Pleiotropic functions of glutathione S-transferase P / Jie Zhang, Christina Grek, Zhi-Wei Ye, Yefim Manevich, Kenneth D. Tew and Danyelle M. Townsend -- A comparison of reversible versus irreversible protein glutathionylation / Danyelle M. Townsend, Volodymyr I. Lushchak and Arthur J.L. Cooper -- Glutathione transferases in the bioactivation of azathioprine / Olof Modén and Bengt Mannervik -- Thioredoxin and hematological malignancies / Ningfei An and Yubin Kang -- Role of the Keap1-Nrf2 pathway in cancer / Hanna M Leinonen, Emilia Kansanen, Petri Pölönen, Merja Heinäniemi and Anna-Liisa Levonen.
Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Here, once again, outstanding and original reviews are presented on a variety of topics, including taxane-anti-androgens cross-resistance in advanced prostate cancer and proteasome inhibitors in the treatment of multiple myeloma.