Overview
- Comprehensive coverage of old, but newly pronounced protein midkine as a promising prognostic and diagnostic biomarker, and a therapeutic agent in wide range of diseases
- Provides an information about the techniques that are used in studying midkine
- Leading experts present their latest work in addition to extensive up-to-date literature review
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Carl Edward Sagan’s (1934-1996) one of the famous quotation was “Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.“ From past to date, well-known molecules, enzymes, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates are studied in the pathogenesis of several diseases both as a diagnostic/prognostic biomarker and therapeutic agent. The underlying mechanism of unexplained diseases and failure of therapies are frequently studied with well-known biomarkers, but remain unclear in many cases. As Dr. Sagan said other keys are still waiting to be known in some forgotten corner of a body universe, we find strength to propose that one of them can be the growth factor with cytokine activity named “Midkine” This book summarizes the extensive up-to-date literature overeview with the lastest work of experts about midkine in a detailed format that conveys its role as botha pathologic factor and therapeutic agent.
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Aspects of Midkine
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GENERAL ASPECTS OF MIDKINE
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Midkine and Inflammation
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MIDKINE AND INFLAMMATION
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Midkine and the Cardiovascular System
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MIDKINE AND THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
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Midkine and the Nervous System
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MIDKINE AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
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Midkine and the Urogenital System, Reproduction and Aging
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Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Midkine: From Embryogenesis to Pathogenesis and Therapy
Editors: Mine Ergüven, Takashi Muramatsu, Ayhan Bilir
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4234-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4233-8Published: 23 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9948-6Published: 11 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4234-5Published: 12 June 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 338
Topics: Biomedicine general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Life Sciences, general, Pharmacy