Phytopharmaceuticals in cancer chemoprevention. (©2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Debasis Bagchi, Harry G. Preuss.
• Other Names: Bagchi, Debasis, 1954-; Preuss, Harry G
• Contents: Front cover; Series Preface; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Table of Contents; Section I; CH 1 Epidemiology of Cancer: an Overview; CONTENTS; 1.1 EPIDEMIOLOGY; 1.2 CANCER: BASIC FACTS; 1.2.1; 1.2.2; 1.3 CANCER TERMS; 1.3.1; 1.3.2; 1.3.3; 1.3.4; 1.4 CANCER: STATISTICS; 1.4.1; 1.4.2; 1.4.3; 1.4.4; 1.4.5; 1.5 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Section II; CH 2 Role of DNA Methylation in Cancer and Chemotherapy; CONTENTS; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 MAINTENANCE OF METHYLATION PATTERNS IN GENOMIC DNA; 2.3 ROLE OF DNA HYPERMETHYLATION IN TUMORIGENESIS; 2.4 DNA HYPOMETHYLATION IN TUMOR DEVELOPMENT. 2.5 DNA METHYLATION AND CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC RESPONSE2.6 CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; CH 3 Metals, Metalloids, and Cancer; CONTENTS; 3.1 INTRODUCTION: METALS AND METALLOIDS; 3.2 EPIDEMIOLOGY: THE CASE FOR METALS AND CANCER; 3.3 CARCINOGENIC METALS; 3.3.1; 3.3.2; 3.3.3; 3.3.4; 3.3.5; 3.3.6; 3.3.7; 3.3.8; 3.4 MECHANISMS OF CANCER CAUSATION BY METALS; 3.4.1; 3.4.2; 3.4.3; 3.4.4; 3.5 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CH 4 Molecular Mechanisms of Asbestos- and Silica-Induced Lung Cancer; CONTENTS; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 BASIC MOLECULAR EVENTS IN CARCINOGENESIS; 4.2.1; 4.2.2. 4.3 LINKAGE BETWEEN SILICA AND LUNG CANCER4.3.1; 4.3.2; 4.3.3; 4.3.4; 4.4 ASBESTOS, A POTENT AND ESTABLISHED CARCINOGEN; 4.4.1; 4.4.2; 4.4.3; 4.5 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CH 5 Involvement of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Lung Cancer: Clinical Importance; CONTENTS; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASES (RTKS); 5.2.2; 5.2.3; 5.3 ROLE OF cMET cKIT AND EGFR; 5.4 ROLE OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; 5.5 RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASES AS TARGET FOR ANTI-CANCER THERAPY; 5.6 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CH 6 Free Radicals, Environmental Radiation, and Cancer; CONTENTS; 6.1 FREE-RADICAL CHEMISTRY; 6.1.1. 6.1.26.2 RADIATION BIOLOGY AND CANCER; 6.3 RADIATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT; REFERENCES; CH 7 Smokeless Tobacco, Oxidative Stress, and Oral Cancer; CONTENTS; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 PREPARATION OF SMOKELESS TOBACCO EXTRACT (STE); 7.3 SMOKELESS TOBACCO EXTRACT, FREE-RADICAL FORMATION, AND LIPID PEROXIDATION; 7.4 SMOKELESS-TOBACCO-INDUCED EXCRETION OF URINARY METABOLITES; 7.5 SMOKELESS TOBACCO EXTRACT, CYTOTOXICITY, AND LDH LEAKAGE IN J774A.1 MACROPHAGE AND PERITONEAL MACROPHAGE CELLS; 7.6 SMOKELESS TOBACCO EXTRACT AND FREE-RADICAL SCAVENGING EFFECTS OF COMMON ANTIOXIDANTS IN MACROPHAGE CELLS. 7.7 subchronic effects of smokeless tobacco extract on hepatic lipid peroxidation and the increased excretion of urinary metabolites7.8 chronic effects of smokeless tobacco on the histopathology of rat livers and induction of hsp90; 7.9 cell viability and trypan blue exclusion technique of normal human oral keratinocytes (nhok) treated with ste; 7.10 smokeless tobacco and superoxide anion production in human oral keratinocytes; 7.11 smokeless tobacco and lipid peroxidation of human oral keratinocytes.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, Fla : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (665 pages, [4] color plates), illustrations
• Subjects: 616.99/4061; Cancer -- Chemoprevention; Carcinogenesis; Cancer -- Pathophysiology; Materia medica, Vegetable; Dietary supplements; Neoplasms -- Prevention & control; Dietary supplements -- Adverse effects; Pharmaceutical preparations -- Chemistry; Phytotherapy -- Adverse effects; Cancer -- Chimioprévention; Cancérogenèse; Cancer -- Physiopathologie; Phytothérapie; Compléments alimentaires; MEDICAL -- Oncology; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer; Phytothérapie; Cancer -- Chemoprevention; Cancer -- Pathophysiology; Carcinogenesis; Dietary supplements; Materia medica, Vegetable; Neoplasias (quimioterapia;fisiopatologia); Carcinoma; Plantas medicinais (quimioterapia); Cancer -- Chimioprévention; Neoplasms -- prevention & control; Phytotherapy; Plant Extracts -- therapeutic use; Drug Discovery; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0203506707; 9780203506707; 0849315603; 9780849315602
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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