Forkhead Foxo Transcription Factors in Development and Disease

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Saghi Ghaffari is a Physician Scientist and Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). Her research is on mechanisms implicated in blood production and disorders of blood. Her work has been partly focused on FOXO transcription factors and their contributions to the healthy blood formation. She has been trained in Medicine in Paris, France, obtained her PhD in Vancouver, Canada and further training at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT in Cambridge, USA. She has been at the ISMMS since 2003.

List of contents

1. DAF-16: FOXO in the Context of C. elegans
Heidi A. Tissenbaum
2. Stem Cells Seen Through the FOXO Lens: An Evolving Paradigm
Raymond Liang and Saghi Ghaffari
3. FOXOs Maintaining the Equilibrium for Better or for Worse
Sabina van Doeselaar and Boudewijn M.T. Burgering
4. FOXO in Neural Cells and Diseases of the Nervous System
Evan E. Santo and Jihye Paik
5. Regulation of Hepatic Glucose Metabolism by FOXO Proteins, an Integrated Approach
Terry G. Unterman
6. The Role of FOXOs in Bone Health and Disease
Ha-Neui Kim, Srividhya Iyer, Rebecca Ring and Maria Almeida
7. Regulation of FOXO Factors in Mammalian Cells
Abigail K. Brown and Ashley E. Webb
8. FOXO3 and Exceptional Longevity: Insights From Hydra to Humans
Philip M.C. Davy, Richard C. Allsopp, Timothy A. Donlon, Brian J. Morris, D. Craig Willcox and Bradley J. Willcox

Report

Praise for the Series:
"Outstanding both in variety and in the quality of its contributions." --Nature

Product details

• Authors: Saghi (EDT) Ghaffari
• Assisted by: Saghi Ghaffari (Editor)
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 28.02.2018, delayed
• EAN: 9780128042533
• ISBN: 978-0-12-804253-3
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: Current Topics in Developmental Biology; Current Topics in Developmenta; Current Topics in Developmental Biology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Microbiology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Developmental Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, molecular biology, Cellular biology (cytology)