Development and Recognition of the Transformed Cell

Greene, Mark I.; Hamaoka, Toshiyuki

ISBN 10: 0306426366 / ISBN 13: 9780306426360

Published by Plenum Pub Corp, New York / London, UK, 1987

About this Item

First edition 1987. Hardcover in patterned cloth, no DJ. Condition very fine inside, square tight and clean book, no names no highlighting no underlining no bent pages, Not an ex-library . Covers show slight cornerwear. Small 4to, 459 pages including index, illustrated. Not a reminder.

Seller Inventory # 003529

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Development and Recognition of the Transformed Cell
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp, New York / London, UK
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306426366
• ISBN 13: 9780306426360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medicine
  • 1st
  • Science

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Synopsis

The study of the phenotypic and genetic features that characterize the malignant cell is a rapidly growing and changing field. Clearly new insights into the processes involved in normal and abnormal cell growth will facilitate our understanding of events relevant to cancer and cellular differentiation. Early studies on genetic fea­ tures associated with cancer focused on chromosomal abnormalities that were observable in several human malignancies. The more recent examination of onco­ genes and the proteins they encode has helped pinpoint many steps in different processes that might be involved in cancer. Immunologic studies of cancer have also developed from an imprecise series of investigations to a more detailed molecular examination of cell-surface struc­ tures that can be recognized immunologically. In the course of the development of modern tumor immunology, it has become clear that many of the antigens that can be recognized appear to be the products of genes involved in cell growth. Fur­ thermore, changes in the cell surface of malignant cells have often been found to include alteration of nonprotein constituents.