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Sharks Get Cancer, Mole Rats Don't : How Animals Could Hold the Key to Unlocking Cancer Immunity in Humans.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Globe Pequot Press, The, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (340 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781633881556
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sharks Get Cancer, Mole Rats Don'tDDC classification:
  • 616.994
LOC classification:
  • RC271.I45 . W457 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter 1: What Just Happened? -- Chapter 2: Action at a Distance -- Chapter 3: Disappearing Devils -- Chapter 4: The Devil Himself: Some Diabolical Biology -- Chapter 5: Devil of a Disease -- Chapter 6: The Perfect Parasite -- Chapter 7: A Malignant Malady in Man's Best Friend -- Chapter 8: The Curious Case of Coley's Toxins (Or Sometimes the Treatment Worked) -- Chapter 9: The Dog Knows -- Chapter 10: Males Need Not Apply -- Chapter 11: Could Brown Fat Be the Secret to Weight Loss? -- Chapter 12: Gamma Rays and Dinosaur Cancer -- Chapter 13: Cancer of the Clam! -- Chapter 14: Sharks Do Get Cancer (Or How Shark Cartilage Can Kill You) -- Chapter 15: Who Truly Doesn't Get Cancer?-Meet the Mole Rats -- Chapter 16: Par for the Course -- Chapter 17: Mighty Mouse to the Rescue! -- Chapter 18: Frodo of Flores -- Chapter 19: A Cancer-Free Clan? -- Chapter 20: Cancer: A Disease of Immune Failure? -- Chapter 21: Malignant Cargo -- Chapter 22: The Power of the Immune System -- Chapter 23: Man Dies of Ovarian Cancer -- Chapter 24: Man's Life Saved by Mosquito Bite -- Chapter 25: Moles, Moles, and More Moles -- Chapter 26: Tumors through the Wormhole -- Chapter 27: The Imposter -- Chapter 28: Competition: The Cause of the Cellular Disease -- Chapter 29: A Standard Model of Molecular Oncology -- Chapter 30: Runaway Train! -- Chapter 31: Order Out of Chaos -- Chapter 32: Immune Theory of Cancer -- Chapter 33: What Can Cows Teach Us about Conquering Cancer? -- Chapter 34: Tough Mothers and Juvenile Delinquents -- Chapter 35: As Crazy as the Quantum Café -- Chapter 36: Connected Dots: Looking Back and Glimpsing the Future -- Acknowledgments -- Photo Insert -- Appendix: Images with Extended Captions -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter 1: What Just Happened? -- Chapter 2: Action at a Distance -- Chapter 3: Disappearing Devils -- Chapter 4: The Devil Himself: Some Diabolical Biology -- Chapter 5: Devil of a Disease -- Chapter 6: The Perfect Parasite -- Chapter 7: A Malignant Malady in Man's Best Friend -- Chapter 8: The Curious Case of Coley's Toxins (Or Sometimes the Treatment Worked) -- Chapter 9: The Dog Knows -- Chapter 10: Males Need Not Apply -- Chapter 11: Could Brown Fat Be the Secret to Weight Loss? -- Chapter 12: Gamma Rays and Dinosaur Cancer -- Chapter 13: Cancer of the Clam! -- Chapter 14: Sharks Do Get Cancer (Or How Shark Cartilage Can Kill You) -- Chapter 15: Who Truly Doesn't Get Cancer?-Meet the Mole Rats -- Chapter 16: Par for the Course -- Chapter 17: Mighty Mouse to the Rescue! -- Chapter 18: Frodo of Flores -- Chapter 19: A Cancer-Free Clan? -- Chapter 20: Cancer: A Disease of Immune Failure? -- Chapter 21: Malignant Cargo -- Chapter 22: The Power of the Immune System -- Chapter 23: Man Dies of Ovarian Cancer -- Chapter 24: Man's Life Saved by Mosquito Bite -- Chapter 25: Moles, Moles, and More Moles -- Chapter 26: Tumors through the Wormhole -- Chapter 27: The Imposter -- Chapter 28: Competition: The Cause of the Cellular Disease -- Chapter 29: A Standard Model of Molecular Oncology -- Chapter 30: Runaway Train! -- Chapter 31: Order Out of Chaos -- Chapter 32: Immune Theory of Cancer -- Chapter 33: What Can Cows Teach Us about Conquering Cancer? -- Chapter 34: Tough Mothers and Juvenile Delinquents -- Chapter 35: As Crazy as the Quantum Café -- Chapter 36: Connected Dots: Looking Back and Glimpsing the Future -- Acknowledgments -- Photo Insert -- Appendix: Images with Extended Captions -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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