Cytokines: A cast of molecular characters in search of their roles. Cytokines in Cancer Therapy by Frances R. Balkwill. Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. 297. £30
✍ Scribed by Alan Morris
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0265-9247
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✦ Synopsis
a Ciba Symposium on this particular topic. New molecular biological approaches, together with the use of synthetic oligosaccharide probes, are likely to yield much new information in the next few years and therefore it would perhaps have been more profitable to hold the meeting after some of these studies have been performed. In this way, the practicalities and strategies of these technologies could have been disseminated and participants and readers would have gained a new insight into oligosaccharide function. This is exemplified in the Chairman's summing-up, where he is not convinced, even after the meeting, that the defined functions of certain carbohydrates have been adequately demonstrated. I concur with him that we will know much more once we have used new techniques to study the functional consequences of adding, deleting, or changing oligosaccharide structure.