Physics of Cancer: Second edition, volume 1
- Interplay between tumor biology, inflammation and cell mechanics
- Claudia Tanja Mierke
- October 2018
Description
In order to increase the healing opportunities of cancer, it is important to impair the dissemination and the spreading of cancer cells from the initial tumor and the formation of metastases in other organs or tissues of the human body. The underlying physical principles of these oncological processes are a major constituent of the research field highlighted in Physics of Cancer.This completely revised second edition is improved linguistically with multiple increases of the number of figures and the inclusion of several novel chapters such as actin filaments during matrix invasion, microtubuli during migration and matrix invasion, nuclear deformability during migration and matrix invasion, and the active role of the tumor stroma in regulating cell invasion.
About Editors
Claudia Tanja Mierke has a background in biology and molecular oncology and is head of the biological physics division at the University of Leipzig where she regularly teaches molecular and cell biology, biophysics and soft matter physics to physicists. She is concerned with various research areas developing our understanding of the physical aspects of cancer.Table of Contents
Preface
About the author
Introduction
1 Initiation of a neoplasm or tumor
2 Inflammation and cancer
3 Cellular stiffness and deformability
4 Cell–cell and cell–matrix adhesion strength, local cell stiffness and forces
5 Cell surface tension, the mobility of cell surface receptors and their location in specific regions
6 Cytoskeletal remodeling dynamics
7 Actin filaments during matrix invasion
8 Intermediate filaments during matrix invasion
Bibliographic
Hardback ISBN: 9780750317511
Ebook ISBN: 9780750317535
DOI: 10.1088/978-0-7503-1753-5
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
Series: Biophysical Society-IOP Series