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• Title:Handbook of brain tumor chemotherapy / edited by Herbert B. Newton.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Newton, Herbert B.
  
• Published/Created:Amsterdam ; San Diego : Academic/Elsevier, 2006.
  

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  • Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WL358 .H35 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Medical Subjects:Brain Neoplasms--drug therapy.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xvi, 510 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780120884100
  0120884100
  
• Contents:1. Overview of brain tumor epidemiology and histopathology / Herbert B. Newton and Abhik Ray-Chaudhury
  2. Clinical pharmacology of brain tumor chemotherapy / Herbert B. Newton
  3. Chemotherapy and anti-epileptic drug interactions / Karen L. Fink
  4. Brain tumor models for cancer therapy / Beverly A. Teicher
  5. Microarray analysis and proteomic approaches to drug development / Nicole J. Ullrich and Scott L. Pomeroy
  6. Chemotherapy resistance / Adrienne C. Scheck
  7. Clinical trial deign and implementation / Nicholas Butowski and Susan Chang
  8. Molecular genetics of brain tumors - an overview / Tim Demuth and Michael E. Berens
  9. Regulation of the cell cycle and interventional developmental therapeutics / Stacey M. Ivanchuk and James T. Rutka
  10. Apoptosis pathways and chemotherapy / Joachim P. Steinbach and Michael Weller
  11. Growth factor signaling pathways and receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors / Ian F. Pollack
  12. Ras signaling pathways and farnesyl transferase inhibitors / Joydeep Mukherjee and Abhijit Guha
  13. PI3-kinase, PKB/Akt, mTOR, and internal signaling pathways / Jean L. Nakamura and Daphne A. Haas-Kogan
  14. Tumor invasiveness and anti-invasion strategies / Sandra A. Rempel and Tom Mikkelsen
  15. Mechanisms of angiogenesis in brain tumors and their translation into therapeutic anti-tumor strategies / Till Acker and Karl H. Plate
  16. Biology of the blood-brain and blood-brain tumor barriers / Herbert H. Engelhard and Tibor Valyi-Nagy
  17. Intra-arterial chemotherapy / Herbert B. Newton
  18. Blood-brain barrier disruption chemotherapy / Nancy D. Doolittle, Tulio P. Murillo and Edward A. Neuwelt
  19. Interstitial chemotherapy and polymer-drug delivery / Raqeeb M. Haque, Eric Amundson, Michael Dorsi and Henry Brem
  20. Intratumoral administration and convection-enhanced delivery / Mike Yue Chen, Zhi-Jian Chen, George T. Gillies, Peter J. Haar and Wiliam C. Broaddus
  21. Marrow ablative chemotherapy with hematopoietic stem cell rescue / Anna Butturini, Matthew Carabasi and Jonathan L. Finlay
  22. CSF dissemination of primary brain tumors / Marc C. Chamberlain
  23. Chemotherapy-activating gene therapy / Kaveh Asadi-Moghaddam and Antonio E. Echocca
  24. Chemotherapy of high-grade astrocytomas / Herbert B. Newton
  25. Chemotherapy of low-grade astrocytomas / Mark G. Malkin
  26. Chemotherapy of oligodendrogliomas / Nina A. Paleologos and Christopher Fahey
  27. Chemotherapy of oligoastrocytomas / Allison L. Weathers and Nina A. Paleologos
  28. Chemotherapy for primary central nervous system lymphoma / Francois G. El Kamar and Lauren E. Abrey
  29. Chemotherapy of medulloblastoma / Herbert B. Newton
  30. Chemotherapy of ependymoma / Mark G. Malkin
  31. Chemotherapy for glioneuronal tumors / Nimish Mohile and Jeffrey J. Raizer
  32. Chemotherapy of pineal parenchymal tumors / Herbert B. Newton
  33. Current therapeutic management strategies for primary intracranial germ cell tumors / Mark T. Jennings
  34. Chemotherapy of meningiomas / Herbert B. Newton
  35. Chemotherapy for brain metastases / Herbert B. Newton
  36. role of chemotherapy in pediatric gliomas / Lorna K. Fitzpatrick and Patricia K. Duffner.