DNA Repair in Cancers
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 25459
Special Issue Editor
Interests: DNA damage and repair; apoptosis; stem cells; ionizing and non-ionizing radiation; electromagnetic fields
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Dear Colleagues,
DNA damage and repair are essential factors which underlie different aspects of cancer, such as induction, promotion, treatment, and risk assessment. DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) represent a most important type of DNA damage, resulting in the formation of chromosomal aberrations, which represent one of the major causes for cancer origination. Thus, the focus of this Special Issue will be DSB. However, types of DNA damage and related issues dealing with mutations, apoptosis, cell cycle, senescence, DNA damage checkpoints, and DNA repair defects in cancer may also be covered in this Special Issue. There are multiple agents, including various chemicals and ionizing radiations, which induce DNA damage and are efficiently used in treatment of cancer through chemo- and radiotherapy. All these aspects are to be covered in the Special Issue, including challenging issues, such as new aspects in mechanisms of DNA repair and induction of DNA damage by non-ionizing radiation and electromagnetic fields.
We would like to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “DNA Repair in Cancers” of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms). This journal has a good impact factor (latest Impact Factor 4.183) and is indexed in Pubmed. Both original studies and reviews are welcome for this Special Issue. If you would like to contribute a review article or original research, it would be greatly appreciated if you could provide a tentative title and a very short abstract of several lines.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Igor Belyaev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- DNA damage
- DNA double stand breaks
- DNA repair
- Cancer
- Mutation
- Apoptosis
- Chromosomal aberrations
- Radiation
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