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This book highlights the concordance between signaling pathways that are involved in obesity and cancer cross-talks. It describes the role of cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, insulin, and adipokines in the development of obesity-associated cancers.The book reviews the role of inflammatory signaling pathways such as estrogen-mediated signaling, mTOR and AMP-activated protein kinase pathway and the involvement of adaptive and innate immunity, oxidative stress, gene polymorphism, dietary phytochemicals, and miRNAs in obesity and cancer. In addition, it covers the latest research on the drugs and natural therapeutic agents that target obesity-induced cancers and discusses various in vivo models for studying obesity and obesity-associated cancer. Lastly, it analyses the role of genetic polymorphisms in the obesity-related genes that influence cancer development. The book is a useful resource for researchers in the field of cancer, pharmacology, food chemistry, and clinical biochemistry.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Diseases & disorders

• Full title: Obesity and Cancer
• Author: Shashank Kumar, Sanjay Gupta
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 361
• EAN: 9789811618482
• ID: 39351300
• Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
• Weight: 569 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. July 2022

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