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Springer Cell Fusion In Health And Disease Ii Cell Fusion In Disease 2011 Edition by Thomas Dittmar Kurt S. Zänker
Although cell fusion is an omnipresent process in life to date considerably less is still known about the mechanisms and the molecules being involved in this biological phenomenon in higher organisms. In Cell Fusion in Health and Disease Vol 1 & Vol 2 leading experts will present up-to-date overviews about cell fusion in physiological and patho-physiological processes which further covers the current knowledge about cell fusion-mediating molecules. Volume 1 deals with Cell Fusion in Health and will cover aspects of cell fusion in fertilization placentation in C. elegans in skeletal muscle development and tissue repair and the use of cell fusion for cellular reprogramming and cancer vaccine development. Volume 2 focuses on Cell Fusion in Disease with a particular emphasis on the role of cell fusion in cancer development and progression. Thus Cell Fusion in Health and Disease Vol 1 & Vol 2 represents a state-of-the-art work for researchers physicians or professionals being interested in the biological phenomenon of cell fusion and beyond. Table of contents : Preface Thomas Dittmar Kurt S. Zanker (Witten/ Herdecke University Witten Germany); 1 Introduction. Thomas Dittmar Kurt S. Zanker (Witten/ Herdecke University Witten Germany); 2 Horizontal gene transfers with or without cell fusions in all categories of the living matter Joseph G. Sinkovics (University of Florida Tampa FL USA); 3 Class III viral membrane fusion proteins Marija Backovic (Pasteur Institute Paris France) Theodore S. Jardetzky (Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford CA USA); 4 Human trophoblast in trisomy 21: a model for cell-cell fusion dynamic investigation Andre Malassine Guillaume Pidoux Pascale Gerbaud Jean Louis Frendo Daniele Evain-Brion (Inserm Paris France) ; 5 Cell fusion and hyperactive osteoclastogenesis in multiple myeloma Franco Silvestris Sabino Ciavarella Sabino Strippoli Franco Dammacco (University of Bari Bari Italy); 6 Cell fusion hypothesis of the cancer stem cell Xin Lu Yibin Kang (Princeton University Princeton NJ USA); 7 Expression of macrophage antigens by tumor cells Ivan Shabo Joar Svanvik (Linkoeping University Linkoeping Sweden); 8 Leukocyte-Cancer cell fusion: Initiator of the Warburg effect in malignancy? Rossitza Lazova Ashok Chakraborty John Pawelek (Yale University School of Medicine New Haven CT USA); 9 Cell fusion drug resistance and recurrence CSCs Christa Nagler Kurt S. Zanker Thomas Dittmar (Witten/ Herdecke University Witten Germany); 10 The role of microvesicles in malignancies Erna Pap (Semmelweis University Budapest Hungary); Index