**Meet the editor**

A Graduate in Biological Science and in Medicine and Surgery, prof. Canuto is a full professor of General Pathology at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Turin University. She was in charge of national research projects, and the scientific organizer of conferences. Her research activity is in two fields: experimental oncology and tissue regeneration. The aim of the first field is to increase

the knowledge on the importance of PUFA as preventive factors or as coadjuvant drugs in cancer. The aim of the second field is to study the biocompatibility and the colonization of new bone substitutes or hernia prostheses, able to induce the bone or peritoneum production. Her activity has been the subject of several full-length publications, and several conference papers.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Dehydrogenases and Cancer 1** 

Chapter 2 **Role of Glutamate Dehydrogenase** 

Ellen Friday, Robert Oliver III,

**Cancer Chemotherapy 41**  Paul M. Bingham and Zuzana Zachar

**Section 2 Dehydrogenases and Some Diseases 63** 

Chapter 5 **Role and Function of Dehydrogenases in CNS** 

P. Naik, S. Prasad and L. Cucullo

Nina Atanassova and Yvetta Koeva

Chapter 6 **Hydrohysteroid Dehydrogenases –** 

Chapter 4 **Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase** 

Chapter 1 **Aldehyde Dehydrogenase: Cancer and Stem Cells 3** 

**in Cancer Growth and Homeostasis 29** 

Francesco Turturro and Tomas Welbourne

Chapter 3 **The Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex in Cancer: Implications for the Transformed State and** 

> **Deficiency and Malaria: A Method to Detect Primaquine-Induced Hemolysis** *in vitro* **65**

**and Blood-Brain Barrier Pathophysiology 91** 

**Biological Role and Clinical Importance – Review 115** 

Adil M. Allahverdiyev, Malahat Bagirova, Serhat Elcicek, Rabia Cakir Koc, Sezen Canim Ates, Serap Yesilkir Baydar, Serkan Yaman, Emrah Sefik Abamor and Olga Nehir Oztel

Adil M. Allahverdiyev, Malahat Bagirova, Olga Nehir Oztel, Serkan Yaman, Emrah Sefik Abamor, Rabia Cakir Koc, Sezen Canim Ates, Serhat Elcicek and Serap Yesilkir Baydar
