Pharmaceutical Perspectives of Cancer Therapeutics
Pharmaceutical Perspectives of Cancer Therapeutics presents a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow review of the principles, current progress and state-of-the-art of cancer therapeutics. The complexity of cancer demands an integrated understanding from both cancer biology and pharmaceutical dosage forms...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer US,
2009.
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0131-6 |
Table of Contents:
- Tumor microvasculature and microenvironment: Therapeutic targets for inhibition of angiogenesis and metastasis
- Anticancer drug development
- Tumor targeted macromolecular drug delivery based on the enhanced permeability and retention effect in solid tumor
- Multidrug-resistance in solid tumor and its reversal
- Targeting of apoptosis signaling pathways and their mediators for cancer therapy
- Role of telomerase in cancer therapeutics
- Polymeric carriers for anticancer drug delivery
- Application of nanobiotechnology in cancer therapeutics
- Receptor-mediated delivery of proteins and peptides to tumors
- Protein transduction domain-mediated delivery of anti-cancer proteins
- Current therapeutic uses of monoclonal antibodies
- Cancer vaccines
- RNA interference for cancer therapy
- MicroRNAs as therapeutic targets for cancer
- Targeted therapies for malignant brain tumors
- The complexity of the HIF-1-dependent hypoxic response in breast cancer presents multiple avenues for therapeutic intervention
- Cancer stem cells: potential mediators of therapeutic resistance and novel targets of anti-cancer treatments
- Image-guided photodynamic cancer therapy
- Functional imaging of multidrug resistance and its applications
- Gene expression microarrays in cancer research
- Clinical trials and translational applications in cancer therapy.