Main description:

Bioactive lipid metabolism and signaling are now widely accepted as major players in cancer biology. This volume helps to fill the urgent need to explore and investigate the innovations, current shortcomings, and future challenges of cancer therapy through the bioactive lipids by presenting new research on the use of bioactive lipids as effective weapons against cancer. The volume introduces the subject and then goes on to cover the chemistry, formulation, and mechanism of bioactive lipids in cancer.

The volume takes a close look at lipoxins, ceramides, resolvins, and sphingosine-1-phosphate and their roles in cancer treatment. It also addresses the formulations based on bioactive lipids for the treatment of cancer. A variety of mechanisms of bioactive lipids as novel therapies are also covered, including using computational techniques to identify bioactive lipid drug targets, targeting therapy via KRAS and PI3K signals, and others. The authors also discuss the role and effects of various substances and their effect on various cancers, including colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and others. The application of lysophosphatidic acid, lipopolysaccharide, lipid-soluble bioactive substance from avocado, omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids-derived lipid metabolites, and more are covered as well.

The volume offers academia, technologists, and scientists from different disciplines valuable information to gain knowledge of bioactive lipid metabolism and signaling as an anti-cancer weapon in their fight against cancer.

Contents:

PART I: CHEMISTRY OF BIOACTIVE LIPIDS 1. Ceramide: A Sphingolipidic Weapon Against Cancer 2. Lipoxins: Emerging Players in the Resolution of Cancer 3. Role of Resolvins in Treatment of Cancer as a Bioactive Lipid 4. Sphingosine-1-Phosphate: An Important Target to Fight Against Cancer PART II: FORMULATION BASED ON BIOACTIVE LIPIDS 5. Bioactive Lipids for the Treatment of Cancer 6. Role of Exosomes as Natural Conveyors of Bioactive Lipids in Cancer PART III: MECHANISM OF BIOACTIVE LIPIDS 7. Identification of Bioactive Lipid Drug Targets by Computational Techniques 8. Metabolism of Lipids in Malignant Solid Tumors under Hypoxia and Drug Targets 9. Novel Targeting Therapy for Colorectal Cancer with Special Emphasis on KRAS and PI3K Pathway 10. Role of Lipid-Soluble Bioactive Substance from Avocado for Inhibition of Prostate and Other Cancers 11. Role of Lipopolysaccharide in the Pathogenesis of Cancer 12. Role of Lysophosphatidic Acid on Cancer 13. Role of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids-Derived Lipid Metabolites on Cancer Hacks