Cell Fusions : Regulation and Control - Larsson, Lars-Inge.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
Foreword - Lars-Inge Larsson -- 1 Regulation and control of cell-cell fusions, Lars-Inge Larsson -- 2 Retroviruses and cell fusions: overview, Anders L. Kjeldbjerg, Shervin Bahrami, Finn Skou Pedersen -- 3 Retroviral membrane fusions: regulation by proteolytic processing and cellular factors, Yoshinao Kubo -- 4 A comparative portrait of retroviral fusogens and syncytins, Philippe Pérot, Cécile Montgiraud, Dimitri Lavillette, François Mallet -- 5 Synctins : molecular aspects, Hungwen Chen, Mei-Leng Cheong -- 6 Role of the actin cytoskeleton within FuRMAS during Drosophila myoblast fusions and first functionally conserved factors in vertebrates, Susanne Filiz Önel, Christine Dottermusch, Angela Sickmann, Detlev Buttgereit, Renate Renkawitz-Pohl -- 7 Role of CD9 in sperm-egg fusion and its general role in fusion phenomena, Natsuko Kawano, Yuichiro Harada, Keiichi Yoshida, Mami Miyado, Kenji Miyado -- 8 Gemate binding and fusion, Young-Joo Yi, Shawn W. Zimmerman, Peter Sutovsky -- 9 Mechanisms regulating human trophoblast fusion, Berthold Huppertz, Martin Gauster -- 10 Macrophage fusion: the making of a new cell, Agnès Vignery -- 11 Molecules regulating macrophage fusions, Takeshi Miyamoto, Toshio Suda -- 12 Current progress towards understanding mechanisms of myoblast fusion in mammals, Grace K. Pavlath -- 13 The endogenous envelop protein synctin is involved in myoblast fusion, Bolette Bjerregaard, Jan Fredrik Talts, Lars-Inge Larsson -- 14 Cell Fusion and stem cells, Alain Silk, Anne E. Powell, Paige S. Davies, Melissa H. Wong -- 15 Cell Fusion and dendritic cell-based vaccines, Jianlin Gong, Shigeo Koido -- 16 Cancer cell fusion with myeloid cells: implications for energy metabolism in malignant hybrids, Rossitza Lazova, Ashok K. Chakraborty, John M. Pawelek -- 17 Cell-cell fusions and human endogenous retroviruses in cancer, Reiner Strick, Matthias W. Beckmann, Pamela L. Strissel -- Index.
Keywords: Medicine; Biomedicine, general