Emerging cancer therapy: microbial approaches and biotechnological tools

This book explores the potential and actual uses of live bacteria or their products in the treatment of cancer. Providing a state-of-the-art overview of the field, this book breaks new ground in emerging cancer treatment modalities. The many microbes that are currently and can potentially be used therapeutically and their products will be reviewed in detail, and studies involving clinical trials, as well as clinical evaluation with these novel anticancer agents will be addressed. Organized into four sections with fourteen to seventeen chapters, this book begins with a section of chapters detailing the use of live orattenuated bacteria and viruses in the treatment of cancer. The second section covers bacterial products, such as proteins/peptides, toxins, antibiotics, DNA and other products, as anticancer agents. The third section describes an overview about recent and representative patents in the field of bacteria/bacterial products as anticancer agents. Finally, the book addresses the benefits ofthe emerging multi-targeting approach of a drug (drug promiscuity) in anticancer drug design and discovery.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-44467-2
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 448
• Fecha Publicación: 02/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés