Natural Compounds and Their Role in Apoptotic Cell Signaling Pathways, Volume 1171

Apoptosis is a highly regulated mechanism by which cells undergo cell death in an active way. As one of the most challenging tasks concerning cancer is to induce apoptosis in malignant cells, researchers increasingly focus on natural products to modulate apoptotic signaling pathways. This book reviews the main effects of natural compounds on the different apoptotic signaling pathways, including the intrinsic and extrinsic apoptosis pathways, the NF-kB-mediated pathway, the PI3K/Akt signaling, and other main pathways.

Among the topic specially covered are:

• Effects of natural compounds on cancer cells
• Natural compounds as inducers of cell death
• Diet in health and disease
• Inflammation and cancer
• Natural compounds as kinase inhibitors
• Natural compounds in neurodegenerative diseases
• Natural compounds as inhibitors of ROS

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Part I. Apoptotic Cell Signaling Pathways in Health and Disease

Part II. Natural Compounds as Regulators of Cancer Cell Signaling Pathways

Part III. Natural Compounds Regulating the Cell Cycle

Part IV. Natural Compounds Regulating Apoptotic Cell Signaling Pathways

Part V. Dietary Agents in Health and Disease

Part VI. Natural Compounds as Inhibitors of inflammation

Part VII. MAP Kinase Signaling Pathways

Part VIII. Neuroprotection

Part IV. Reactive Oxygen Species

Part X. Other Types of Cell Death

"An essential guide to further study in this field." (Business & Finance Ireland, November 2009)

Marc Diederich is the editor of Natural Compounds and Their Role in Apoptotic Cell Signaling Pathways, Volume 1171, published by Wiley.