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Cancer is a multifaceted disease and overwhelmingly increasing experimental evidence has helped us to develop a deeper understanding of the role of signal transduction cascades in cancer development and progression. Tissue microarrays and next generation sequencing technologies have assisted us to gather missing pieces of jigsaw puzzle and we now know that deregulation of spatio-temporally controlled signaling cascades play fundamental role in metastasis and resistance against wide ranging therapeutics. This book offers a balanced overview of the rapidly emerging cutting edge research in molecular oncology and good source of knowledge for established oncologists, basic and medical students and pharmaceutical industry associated R&D departments.
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Sundas Fayyaz · Ammad Ahmad Farooqi Editors
Recent Trends in Cancer Biology: Spotlight on Signaling Cascades and microRNAs Cell Signaling Pathways and microRNAs in Cancer Biology
Recent Trends in Cancer Biology: Spotlight on Signaling Cascades and microRNAs
Sundas Fayyaz · Ammad Ahmad Farooqi Editors
Recent Trends in Cancer Biology: Spotlight on Signaling Cascades and microRNAs Cell Signaling Pathways and microRNAs in Cancer Biology
Editors Sundas Fayyaz Department of Biochemistry Rashid Latif Medical College (RLMC) Lahore, Pakistan
Ammad Ahmad Farooqi Institute of Biomedical and Genetic Engineering (IBGE) Islamabad, Pakistan
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Preface
Cell signaling is one of the most intricate and fascinating areas of molecular biology, and it will not be wrong to say that we have witnessed groundbreaking discoveries in the era of molecular biology. It was in the late 1970s when scientists started to discover interwoven network of proteins. Genetic, genomic, and proteomic studies have improved our understanding of these highly synchronized, hierarchically assembled arrays of proteins, which transduce the signals linearly and also cross-talk with other signaling cascades. This book comprehensively reviews most recent advancements in our understanding of the involvement of intracellular signaling cascades in cancer development and progression. Detailed information presented in this book will help y