Two Faces of Evil: Cancer and Neurodegeneration

1. Updating the Mammalian Cell Cycle: The Role of Interphase Cdks in Tissue Homeostasis and Cancer
Mariano Barbacid

2. The Role of Cdk5 as a Cell Cycle Suppressor in Post-mitotic Neurons
Karl Herrup

3. Actin-SRF Signaling in the Developing and Mature Murine Brain
Alfred Nordheim, Bernd Knöll

4. The E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Ube3A Regulates Synaptic Function Through the Ubiquitination of Arc
Eric C. Griffith, Paul L. Greer, Michael E. Greenberg

5. Targeting Children’s Brain Tumors: Development of Hedgehog Pathway Inhibitors for Medulloblastoma
Tom Curran

6. Primary Cilia as Switches in Brain Development and Cancer
Young-Goo Han, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

7. Nervous System Aging, Degeneration, and the p53 Family
Freda D. Miller, David R. Kaplan

8. p53, a Molecular Bridge Between Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology and Cancers?
Frédéric Checler, Julie Dunys, Raphaëlle Pardossi-Piquard, Cristine Alves da Costa

9. RNA regulation in Neurodegeneration and Cancer
Robert B. Darnell

10. Bridging Environment and DNA: Activity-Induced Epigenetic Modification in the Adult Brain
Dengke K. Ma, Junjie U. Guo, Guo-li Ming, Hongjun Song

11. Intrinsic Brain Signaling Pathways: Targets of Neuron Degeneration
Harry T. Orr

12. The miRNA System: Bifurcation Points of Cancer and Neurodegeneration
Kenneth S. Kosik, Pierre Neveu, Sourav Banerjee

13. Molecular Mechanisms for the Initiation and Maintenance of Long-Term Memory Storage
Sathyanarayanan Puthanveettil, Eric Kandel

Keywords: Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Cancer Research