Periostin /
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of current understanding of periostin and its importance for human health and disease. Periostin is a secretory matricellular protein that has been revealed to play key roles in fibrillogenesis and cell migration, including metastasis of cance...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Advances in experimental medicine and biology.
1132. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Overview of Periostin
- Chapter 1: Naming, History, Future
- Part 2: Basic properties of Periostin
- Chapter 2: The structure of the periostin gene, its transcriptional control and alternative splicing, and protein expression
- Part 3: Function as the scaffold
- Chapter 3: Periostin functions as a scaffold for assembly of extracellular proteins
- Part 4: Health and Disease in Organs
- Chapter 4: Periostin reexpression in heart disease contributes to cardiac interstitial remodeling by supporting the cardiac myofibroblast phenotype
- Chapter 5: Periostin in bone biology
- Chapter 6: Periostin in bone regeneration
- Chapter 7: Functions of periostin in dental tissues and its role in periodontal tissue regeneration
- Chapter 8: Periostin and human teeth
- Chapter 9: Ability of periostin as a new biomarker of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Chapter 10: Involvement of periostin in skin function and the pathogenesis of skin diseases
- Chapter 11: Periostin in the kidney
- Chapter 12: Periostin in eye diseases
- Chapter 13: The maltiaspect functions of periostin in tumor progression
- Part 5: Other types of fibrosis and tissue repair
- Chapter 14: Liver, Stroke, Rhinosinusitis
- Part 6: Inflammation
- Chapter 15: Roles of periostin in asthma
- Part 7: Periostin in Development
- Chapter 16: Periostin and integrin signaling in stem cell regulation
- Chapter 17: Role of periostin in cardiac valve development
- Part 8: Biomarker
- Chapter 18: Practical application of periostin as a biomarker for pathological conditions
- Part 9: Clinical applications
- Chapter 19: Clinical trials and new applications.