Description: Growth factors are an important class of intercellular signalling molecules and the last few years have seen an explosive growth of knowledge in this area. Growth factors are now seen to be important in clinical medicine, physiology, pathology, cell and molecular biology, and immunology. This volume begins with a discussion of the origins of growth factor research and the biology of mammalian cell proliferation, goes on to describe in detail current knowledge of the biochemistry of growth factors, their receptors, and intra-cellular signaling pathways, and finally considers growth factors and the nuclear response.

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