Natural Products and Cancer Signaling: Isoprenoids, Polyphenols and Flavonoids: Volume 36 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0128022159 ISBN 13: 9780128022153

Casa editrice: Academic Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Natural compounds from a variety of natural resources including plants have emerged as important source of anticancer drug development. This special issue will highlight the significant advance in elucidating mechanisms of action of these natural compounds, focusing especially on isoprenoids and polyphenols/flavonoids.

• Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field
• Contributions from leading authorities and industry experts

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L'autore:

Fuyu Tamanoi is a biochemist who has served on the UCLA School of Medicine and UCLA College faculty since he joined the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics in 1993. He became a full professor in 1997. Since 1996, he has been a Director of Signal Transduction Program Area at Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Tamanoi earned his B.S. and M.S. in Biochemistry at the University of Tokyo. He received PhD in Molecular Biology at Nagoya University in 1977. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, where he worked on bacteriophage DNA replication. From 1980 to 1985, he was a senior staff investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he worked on adenovirus DNA replication. From 1985 to 1993, he was an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, where he initiated studies on lipid modification of the Ras family proteins. His laboratory research centers on signal transduction and signal transduction inhibitors. He is currently exploring ways to deliver signal transduction inhibitors using nanoparticles.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Academic Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0128022159
• ISBN 13: 9780128022153
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 258
• Redattore: Bathaie S. Zahra, Tamanoi Fuyuhiko