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Title Molecular mechanisms of tumor cell resistance to chemotherapy : targeted therapies to reverse resistance / Benjamin Bonavida, editor
Published New York, NY : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Resistance to targeted anti-cancer therapeutics ; v. 1
Resistance to targeted anti-cancer therapeutics ; v. 1.
Contents Preface -- Multidrug resistance in cancer: a tale of ABC drug transporters -- Multidrug resistance: a role for membrane physics, pH and drug transporters -- Mechanisms and potential therapies for acquired resistance to inhibitors targeting the Raf or MEK kinases in cancer -- Mechanisms of resistance to targeted B-Raf therapies -- Role of?1integrins in the complication and drug resistance against lung cancer: targeting?1integrins to eradicate lung cancer -- Aldo-keto reductases as new therapeutic targets for colon cancer chemoresistance -- Overcoming drug resistance through elevation of ROS in cancer -- Cancer stem cells in resistance to cytotoxic drugs: implications in chemotherapy -- Two birds with a stone: molecular cancer therapy targeting signal transduction and DNA repair pathways -- Collateral sensitivity in drug-resistant tumor cells -- Human cancer resistance to trail-apoptotic pathway-targeted therapies -- The dark side of apoptosis -- Index
Summary Patients with various cancers are treated with conventional chemotherapeutic drugs and the majority responds well to such therapies. However, there is a subset of patients who does not respond initially and another subset who no longer responds to further treatments. Clearly, in those two subsets of patients, the cancer cells exhibit mechanisms of resistance. One of the main challenges facing us to date is to develop new therapies to treat patients with the resistant tumors. The development of new effective therapies will be dependent on delineating the biochemical, molecular, and genetic mechanisms that regulate tumor cell resistance. Such mechanisms have revealed gene products that directly regulate resistance and are targets for therapy. Of interest, several FDA-approved drugs were able to overcome drug resistance and have been successfully used clinically. They have been used as monotherapy or synergized with other therapies for the treatment of resistant tumors. This volume constitutes a total of twelve selective reviews by pioneer scientists in the field of cancer drug resistance. Specific mechanisms in drug resistance are reviewed and novel approaches are being proposed for therapeutic interventions. This volume is of general interest to scientists, clinicians, health care providers, and students
Analysis Medicine
Oncology
Drug interactions
Cytology
Biomedicine
Cancer Research
Apoptosis
Cell Biology
Drug Resistance
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
In Springer eBooks
Subject Drug resistance in cancer cells.
Cancer -- Chemotherapy.
Cancer -- Molecular aspects.
Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
Neoplasms -- drug therapy
Neoplasms -- genetics
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
MEDICAL -- Oncology.
Cancer -- Chemotherapy
Cancer -- Molecular aspects
Drug resistance in cancer cells
Form Electronic book
Author Bonavida, Benjamin.
ISBN 9781461470700
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