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Author Dakubo, Gabriel D.

Title Mitochondrial genetics and cancer / Gabriel D. Dakubo
Published Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 356 pages)
Contents General Overview of Mitochondrial Genetics and Functions -- Mitochondrial Genetic Alterations in Cancer -- Clinical Applications of Mitochondrial Gennome Changes in Cancer
Summary The pivotal role of mitochondrial functions in carcinogenesis is quite well established. However, the critical role of mitochondrial genome alterations to cancer development is muted in traditional textbooks. Recent scientific efforts have provided unequivocal evidence for mitochondrial genome mutations and content changes in cancer development, progression, and therapy. This pioneering book is a unique compilation of mitochondrial genome alterations in cancer. While primarily focused on the emerging role of mitochondrial genome changes, bioenergetics and signaling pathways, attention is also given to the metabolic transformations of the cancer cell, as well as the established altered cell death processes that underlie cancer evolution and treatment resistance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cancer -- Genetic aspects.
Cancer genes.
Mutation (Biology)
Neoplasms -- genetics
Mutation
Genes, Mitochondrial
Genes, Neoplasm
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Mutation (Biology)
Cancer genes
Cancer -- Genetic aspects
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010923247
ISBN 9783642114168
3642114164