Cytoskeleton and human disease /

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Imprint:[Totowa, N.J.] : Humana Press, c2012.
Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 453 p.) : ill. (some col.)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8873747
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Other authors / contributors:Kavallaris, Maria.
ISBN:9781617797880 (electronic bk.)
161779788X (electronic bk.)
9781617797873
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Basics of the Cytoskeleton
  • ACTIN / Vera Dugina, Richard Arnoldi, Paul A. Janmey and Christine Chaponnier
  • Microtubules / Pavel Dráber and Eduarda Dráberová
  • The Kinesin Superfamily / Linda Wordeman
  • Basics of the Cytoskeleton: Myosins / Omar A. Quintero, Judy E. Moore and Christopher M. Yengo
  • Part 2. Actin and Disease
  • The Actin Cytoskeleton and Membrane Organisation in T Lymphocytes / Rhea Cornely, Thomas Grewal and Katharina Gaus
  • Thin Filament Diseases of Striated Muscle / Anthony J. Kee and Edna C. Hardeman
  • Filamins and Disease / Stephen P. Robertson and Philip B. Daniel
  • LIM Kinase and Cancer Metastasis / Alice Schofield and Ora Bernard
  • Actin Mutations and Deafness / Matías Morín, Fernando Mayo, Felipe Moreno and Miguel A. Moreno-Pelayo
  • Therapeutic Targeting of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Cancer / Teresa Bonello, Jason Coombes, Galina Schevzov, Peter Gunning and Justine Stehn.
  • Part 3. Microtubules and Disease
  • Microtubules as a Target in Cancer Therapy / April L. Risinger and Susan L. Mooberry
  • Microtubules, Drug Resistance, and Tumorigenesis / Joshua A. McCarroll and Maria Kavallaris
  • Posttranslational Modifications of Tubulin / Suzan K. Chao, Chia-Ping H. Yang and Susan Band Horwitz
  • Stathmin and Cancer / Dominic Chi Hiung Ng and Frances Byrne
  • The Biology and Pathobiology of Tau Protein / Garth F. Hall
  • Tubulin-Related Malformations of Cortical Development / Xavier H. Jaglin, Jamel Chelly and Nadia Bahi-Buisson
  • Part 4. Intermediate Filaments and Disease
  • Spectrins in Human Diseases / Marie-Christine Lecomte
  • Laminopathies / Nadir M. Maraldi and Giovanna Lattanzi
  • Desmin and Heart Disease / J. Scott Pattison and Jeffrey Robbins
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases and Intermediate Filaments / Rodolphe Perrot and Jean-Pierre Julien.