Tgf Beta and Cancer (Medical Intelligence Unit) - Tapa dura

In the context of the notion that malignant cancer is associated with an imbalance of growth factors and disordered inter-cellular communication within the micro-environment of cells, eight studies focus on the increasing evidence that Transforming Growth Factor beta is a pre-eminent negative growth regulator with anti- proliferative effects on a range of epithelial cell types. They review connections between growth factors and carcinogenesis in general, then look at the subject factor's family and biological functions, stromal-epithelial interactions, developing organisms, colonic neoplasia, the mediation of therapeutic response in breast cancer, and other organs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.