Growth factors : a practical approach /

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Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : IRL Press at Oxford University Press, c1993.
Description:	xx, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Practical approach series
Subject:	Growth factors -- Research -- Methodology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1448091

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Other authors / contributors:	McKay, Ian (Ian A.) Leigh, Irene (Irene M.)
ISBN:	0199633606 (hbk.) : £32.50 ($48.75 U.S.) 0199633592 (pbk.) : £22.50 ($33.75 U.S.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Types of growth factor activity: detection and characterization of new growth factor activities
2. Detection of polypeptide growth factors: application of specific bio-assays and PCR technology
3. Induction of DNA synthesis and cell division in quiescent cells in response to small peptide growth factors
4. Novel gene transcription in response to growth factors: gene isolation by differential plague hybridization
5. Embryological assays for growth factors
6. The role of TGF- in bone growth and bone repair
7. Localization of growth factor mRNA in tissue sections by in-situ hybridization
8. Detection and characterization of growth inhibitory factors: epidermal inhibitory pentapeptide (EIP)
9. Expression of growth factors in microbial systems
10. Immunoassays for growth factors
11. Determination of growth factor receptor distribution by immunocytochemistry or autoradiography and quantitation by ligand binding or FACS analysisAppendices

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