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List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Considering Tin as a Vital Nutrient 3. Tin and Cancer: a Review 4. Tin and Lymphatic System: Experimental Studies 5. Experimental Studies of Tin in the Mouse 6. Aspects of Xenobiotic Tin Distribution in Rodent Tissue 7. Tin, Tumors, and Thymus Gland 8. The Effects of Tin Compound on Cell Growth and Development 9. The Effects of Metallic Tin and Inorganic Tin on Plasma Cells 10. The Thymus Gland 11. Thymic Hormones 12. Synthesis of Trichloro-(Methylamino)-bis-(Methyl-Amine) Tin (IV). Methylamine Hydrochloride 13. Antitumor Active Organotin Compounds 14. Are there Relationships between Structure and Antileukemia P-388 Activity of Di- and Triorganotin Derivatives of Amino Acids and Some Other Biologically Relevant Compounds? 15. Synthesis of Tin Steroids and the Relation between Structure and Anticancer Activity 16. Tin Steroids 17. Suppression of Mammary Adenocarcinoma in A/KI Mice Through the Oral Administration of Tin Steroids 18. Organotin Insect Antifeedants: an Overview 19. Toxicity and Chosen Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Some Tin Steroid Compounds on Selected Insect Species 20. The Antimicrobial Activity of Selected Organotin Steroids 21. Tin and the Aging Process 22. The Molecular Nature of Tin in Cellular Media: an Abstract 23. The Toxicology and Biological Properties of Organotin Compounds 24. Towards a New Theory of Anticogenesis 25. Organotin Chemistry: a Brief Primer with Comments on Organometallic Chemotherapy 26. Conclusion
About the author
Professor Nate Cardarelli teaches in the Community and technical College, University of Akron.
Summary
First published in 1986. Taken from the Tin and Cell Malignancy Symposium, this volume will help others to appreciate the interdisciplinary nature of this field.
