Monday, October 8, 2007

Infectious Causes of Cancer: Targets for Intervention

Infectious Causes of Cancer: Targets for Intervention (Infectious Disease)
by James J. Goedert (Editor)

Product Details:
* Hardcover: 498 pages
* Publisher: Humana Press; 1st edition (April 15, 2000)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 089603772

Book Description
James J. Goedert and a team of leading experimental and clinical researchers provide critical, integrating surveys of those viruses, bacteria, and parasites that are now known to play a major role in cancer-work that opens the way toward novel therapeutic targets. The contributors focus on five types of human carcinogenic infection-herpesviruses, retroviruses, papillomaviruses, hepatitis viruses, and H. pylori-and review in depth the associated malignancies, as well as how these new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies may be implemented. Cutting-edge and cross-disciplinary, Infectious Causes of Cancer: Targets for Intervention provides clinical oncologists and infectious disease specialists, as well as clinical researchers, with insightful reviews of cancer induction by infectious diseases and the high promise of closely targeted new therapeutics and vaccines.

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RNA Editing

RNA Editing, Volume 424 (Methods in Enzymology)
by Jonatha Gott (Editor)

Product Details:
* Hardcover: 560 pages
* Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (August 6, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0123739225

Book Description
RNA processing plays a critical role in realizing the full potential of a given genome. One means of achieving protein diversity is through RNA editing. A diverse array of editing events has been characterized, affecting gene expression in organisms from viruses and single cell parasites to humans and plants. The variety of editing mechanisms has required the development of many different experimental approaches, many of which are likely to be broadly applicable, particularly given the interplay between editing and other cellular processes, including transcription, splicing, and RNA silencing. This volume not only covers most of the principal methods employed in the field, but also offers innovative solutions to the significant challenges posed by these experimental systems.

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