Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
18.05.2016
Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic PublishingSeitenzahl
216
Maße (L/B/H)
22/15/1.4 cm
Gewicht
340 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-659-82524-8
The development of drug resistance during treatment is possibly the most important factor hampering the success of cancer therapy. In order to survive in the presence of chemotherapeutic drugs cells must quickly adapt to their altered environment. This may involve a collective stress response of interacting cells, whose mechanism is not yet clear. In the course of this work we interrogated the conceptual framework used to describe cancer and examined different aspects of drug resistance. Here I present the idea that acquired drug resistance is not simply the passive selection of pre-existing mutants but can be accelerated by active adaptation. Cancer treatment is therefore a double-edge sword: while the weakest cells die, the survivors cope cell-autonomously with the therapeutic perturbation.
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