Product Description: This two-volume treatise, the collected effort of more than 50 authors, represents the first comprehensive survey of the chemistry and biology of the set of molecules known as peptide growth factors. Although there have been many symposia on this topic, and numerous publications of reviews dealing with selected subsets of growth factors, the entire field has never been covered in a single treatise...read more

Product Description: Transforming Growth Factor- ß in Cancer Therapy, Vols. 1 and 2, provides a compendium of findings about the role of transforming growth factor- ß (TGF- ß) in cancer treatment and therapy. The first volume, Basic and Clinical Biology, is divided into three parts...read more

Product Description: he Second Edition of this comprehensive reference on the retinoids reflects the important advances that have occurred since the publication of the First Edition in 1984. The contributors review current knowledge of new ligands, receptors, mechanisms of cellular action, and molecular mechanisms of control of gene expression by retinoids, and explore the impact of such discoveries on basic science and on clinical applications of retinoids...read more

Product Description: This two-volume treatise, the collected effort of more than 50 authors, represents the first comprehensive survey of the chemistry and biology of the set of molecules known as peptide growth factors. Although there have been many symposia on this topic, and numerous publications of reviews dealing with selected subsets of growth factors, the entire field has never been covered in a single treatise...read more

First Edition and First Printing. Near Fine - very. See scans and description. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, Inc. / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1984. 'The Retinoids - Volume 2', edited by Michael B. Sporn, Anita B. Roberts, and DeWitt S. Goodman. ISBN 0126581029. Octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt and black imprinting on front cover and spine, 459 pp. (xiii + 446). Near Fine - in fact, fine, but for the neatly rubber-stamped name and position of a former Syracuse University physics professor on the front free endpaper, that professor having been the only prior owner of this otherwise almost immaculately preserved volume. See all scans. Volume 2 of the memorable set covering every facet of study of retinoids by a variety of scholars; see scan of list of contributors. Tables, photographs, etc. throughout. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. L21