Screen LibraryAutophagy : cancer, other pathologies, inflammation, immunity, infection, and aging. Volume 8 /
Understanding the importance and necessity of the role of autophagy in health and disease is vital for the studies of cancer, aging, neurodegeneration, immunology, and infectious diseases. Comprehensive and forward-thinking, these books offer a valuable guide to both cellular processes while incitin...
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Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
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[2016] ©2016 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128029374 |
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Understanding the importance and necessity of the role of autophagy in health and disease is vital for the studies of cancer, aging, neurodegeneration, immunology, and infectious diseases. Comprehensive and forward-thinking, these books offer a valuable guide to both cellular processes while inciting researchers to explore their potentially important connections. Volume 8 Autophagy and Human Diseases, concentrates on the role of Autophagy in human diseases, including tumorigenesis. The diseases discussed include melanoma, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders. Loss of autophagy in the central nervous system causes neurodegeneration (Alzheimers disease, Huntington's disease, Parkin's disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). Melanoma is one of the most serious diseases in humans. Autophagy plays a key role in the anticancer response to Chemotherapy. However, autophagy can increase or decrease the effectiveness of chemotherapy. The reasons for these contradictory effects are explained. Autophagy also plays a role in idiopathic inflammatory diseases, infection, and immunity. An explanation is given how autophagy is closely linked to control of innate and adaptive immune responses in host defense in part by regulating cytokine production. The role of autophagy in cutaneous malignant melanoma is discussed in detail and expression of Beclin 1 and LC3 autophagic genes in melanoma is included to explain the molecular mechanisms underlying this very serious disease, which tends to metastasize to the brain. The effect of the treatment of this disease using Terfenadine through the induction of autophagy and apoptosis is also included. Autophagy and apoptosis are two main mechanisms involved in programmed cell death. Considering that autophagy is associated with numerous biological processes including cellular development and differentiation, cancer (both antitumor and protumor functions), immunity, infectious diseases, inflammation, maintenance of homeostasis, response to cellular stress, and degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and prion diseases, there is a great need to understanding its role. Cell homeostasis is achieved by balancing biosynthesis and cellular turnover. In spite of the increasing importance of autophagy in various pathophysiological situations (conditions) mentioned above, this process remains underestimated and overlooked. As a consequence, its role in the initiation, stability, maintenance, and progression of these and other diseases (e.g., autoimmune disease) remains poorly understood. Volumes in the Series Volume 1: Molecular Mechanisms. Elucidates autophagy's association with numerous biological processes, including cellular development and differentiation, cancer, immunity, infectious diseases, inflammation, maintenance of homeostasis, response to cellular stress, and degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and prion diseases. Volume 2: Role in General Diseases. Describes the various aspects of the complex process of autophagy in a myriad of devastating human diseases, expanding from a discussion of essential autophagic functions into the role of autophagy in proteins, pathogens, immunity, and general diseases. Volume 3: Role in Specific Diseases. Explores the role of autophagy in specific diseases and developments, including: Crohn's Disease, Gaucher Disease, Huntington's Disease, HCV infection, osteoarthritis, and liver injury, with a full section devoted to in-depth exploration of autophagy in tumor development and cancer, as well as the relationship between autophagy and apoptosis. Volume 4: Mitophagy. Presents detailed information on the role of mitophagy, the selective autophagy of mitochondria, in health and disease, by delivering an in-depth treatment of the molecular mechanisms involved in mitophagy initiation and execution, as well as the role of mitophagy in Parkinson Disease, cardiac aging, and skeletal muscle atrophy. Volume 5: Role in Human Diseases. Comprehensively describes the role of autophagy in human diseases, delivering coverage of the antitumor and protumor roles of autophagy; the therapeutic inhibition of autophagy in cancer; and the duality of autophagy's effects in various cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurodegenerative disorders. Volume 6: Regulation of Autophagy and Selective Autophagy. Provides coverage of the mechanisms of regulation of autophagy; intracellular pathogen use of the autophagy mechanism; the role of autophagy in host immunity; and selective autophagy. Volume 7: Role of Autophagy in Therapeutic Applications. Provides coverage of the latest developments in autophagosome biogenesis and regulation; the role of autophagy in protein quality control; the role of autophagy in apoptosis; autophagy in the cardiovascular system; and the relationships between autophagy and lifestyle. Volume 8: Autophagy and |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (418 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780128029527 0128029528 |
| Index Number: | QH603 |
| CLC: | Q244 |
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Front Cover; Autophagy: Cancer, Other Pathologies, Inflammation, Immunity, Infection, and Aging; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword by Roberta A. Gottlieb; Foreword by Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen; Preface; Contributors; Autophagy: Volume 1 -- Contributions; Autophagy: Volume 2 -- Contributions; Autophagy: Volume 3 -- Contributions; Autophagy: Volume 4 -- Contributions; Autophagy: Volume 5 -- Contributions; Autophagy: Volume 6 -- Contributions; Autophagy: Volume 7 -- Contributions; 1 Overview of Autophagy; Introduction; Specific Functions of Autophagy (A Summary); Autophagy in Normal Mammalian Cells Endoplasmic ReticulumEndoplasmic Reticulum Stress; Major Types of Autophagies; Macroautophagy (Autophagy); Microautophagy; Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy; Autophagosome Formation; Autophagic Lysosome Reformation; Protein Synthesis; Methods; Abnormal Proteins; Molecular Chaperones; The Endoplasmic Reticulum; ER and Apoptosis; Autophagic Proteins; Protein Degradation Systems; Beclin 1; Non-Autophagic Functions of Autophagy-Related Proteins; Microtubule-Associated Protein Light Chain 3; Aggrephagy; Aggresome, Ubiquitin Proteasome, and Autophagic Systems; Monitoring Autophagy Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR); Role of Autophagy in Tumorigenesis and Cancer; Role of Autophagy in Immunity; Autophagy and Senescence; Role of Autophagy in Viral Defense and Replication; Role of Autophagy in Intracellular Bacterial Infection; Role of Autophagy in Heart Disease; Role of Autophagy in Neurodegenerative Diseases; Cross-Talk between Autophagy and Apoptosis; Autophagy and Ubiquitination; Autophagy and Necroptosis; Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission; Selective Autophagy; Allophagy; Axonophagy (Neuronal Autophagy); Chromatophagy; Ciliophagy CrinophagyExophagy; Glycophagy; Lipophagy; Role of Lipophagy in Alcohol-Induced Liver Disease; Lysophagy; Mitophagy; Nucleophagy; Pexophagy; Role of Pexophagy in Yeast; Reticulophagy; Ribophagy; Xenophagy; Zymophagy; References; I. Molecular Mechanisms; 2 Role of the Beclin 1 Network in the Cross-Regulation Between Autophagy and Apoptosis; Introduction; Beclin 1 Structure in Autophagy; Transcriptional Regulation of Beclin 1 in Autophagy; Posttranslational Modification of Beclin 1 in Autophagy; Beclin 1-PI3KC3 Core Complex in Autophagy; Beclin 1-BCL-2 Complex in Autophagy Beclin 1-Binding Proteins in AutophagyNuclear Receptor-Binding Factor-2; Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor; Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2; Endophilin B1/BAX-Interacting Factor 1; Autophagy/Beclin 1 Regulator 1; High Mobility Group Box 1; Neuronal Isoform of Protein Interaction, Specifically with TC10; Vacuole Membrane Protein 1; Signaling Lymphocyte Activation Molecule; IP(3) Receptor; PTEN-Induced Putative Kinase 1/PARKIN; SURVIVIN; Pathogen-Derived Beclin 1 Interaction Partners; Beclin 1-Mediated Interplay Between Apoptosis and Autophagy; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References |