BookMine Ergüven, Takashi Muramatsu, Ayhan Bilir, editors.
Contents:
pt. 1. GENERAL ASPECTS OF MIDKINE
General Information on Midkine / Takashi Muramatsu
The Role of Midkine in Neural Development and Patterning / Sheng Yao and Christoph Winkler
Midkine: A Player in Innate Immunity / Sara L. Nordin and Arne Egesten
Midkine/P63 Axis in Regulation of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition / Yiping Huang and Edward A. Ratovitski
Immunochemical Methods for the Detection of Midkine in Samples of Human Origin / Stefan Sommerschuh, Michael Kirchner and Nicole Gliese
Circulating Midkine in Malignant, Inflammatory, and Infectious Diseases: A Systematic Review / Malgorzata Krzystek-Korpacka and Malgorzata Matusiewicz
pt. 2. MIDKINE AND INFLAMMATION
Midkine in Inflammation and Inflammatory Diseases / Nuray Yazıhan, Mehtap Kacar Kocak and Ethem Akcıl
Rheumatoid Arthritis and Midkine / Hisako Muramatsu, Kiyoko Maruyama and Naoki Ishiguro
pt. 3. MIDKINE AND THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
Midkine and Heart Failure / Mitsuru Horiba and Kenji Kadomatsu
Vascular Restenosis and Midkine / Kenji Kadomatsu
The Potential of MK Through the Renin-Angiotensin System / Tomoki Kosugi and Kenji Kadomatsu
pt. 4. MIDKINE AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Midkine and Multiple Sclerosis / Hideyuki Takeuchi
Midkine Gene Transfer in Brain Infarction / Hiroaki Ooboshi, Eiichi Ishikawa, Junichi Takada, Takashi Shichita and Yasuhiro Kumai
Midkine in Psychiatric and Neurodegenerative Diseases / Eiji Shimizu and Daisuke Matsuzawa
pt. 5. MIDKINE AND THE UROGENITAL SYSTEM, REPRODUCTION AND AGING
Role of Midkine in Nephrogenesis and Kidney Disease / Waichi Sato and Kenji Kadomatsu
Midkine, a Factor Promoting Cytoplasmic Maturation of Oocytes / Masayasu Yamada, Yuuki Isaji and Shuntaro Ikeda
Endometriosis May Be Promoted by Midkine: Possible Involvement of Ovarian Follicles / Yutaka Osuga, Yasushi Hirota, Kaori Koga, Osamu Yoshino and Tetsuya Hirata
Stem Cells and Midkine / Hisako Muramatsu, Peng Zou and Takashi Muramatsu
Midkine in Skeletal Physiology / Astrid Liedert, Thorsten Schinke, Anita Ignatius and Michael Amling
pt. 6. MIDKINE AND CANCER
Midkine and Chemoresistance in Cancers / Yoshifumi Takei and Kenji Kadomatsu
A Gene Medicine with the Midkine-mediated Transcriptional Regulation as New Cancer Therapeutics / Masatoshi Tagawa, Kiyoko Kawamura, Ling Yu, Yuji Tada and Kenzo Hiroshima, et al.
Midkine as a Tumor-Shared Antigen / Jerome Kerzerho, Florence Anne Castelli and Bernard Maillère
Midkine in Prostate Cancer / Zongbing You
Midkine Is a Potential Therapeutic Target of Hepatocellular Carcinoma / Li Cheng Dai, Xing Yao and Jing Zhong
Midkine in Glioblastoma with the Modulator Role Switching Autophagy to Cell Death or Cell Survival / Mine Ergüven and Ayhan Bilir
Colon Cancer and Midkine / Özgür Kemik, Ahu Sarbay Kemik and A. Cumhur Dülger
Osteosarcoma and Midkine / Tadashi Kaname, Kumiko Yanagi and Hiroki Maehara.