GS040101   Polypeptide Growth Factors

Chakrabarty, Subhas. One semester hour. Spring annually. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

This course examines the structure and function of several major classes of polypeptide growth factors - the epidermal and transforming growth factor beta families; insulin and insulin-like growth factors, platelet-derived growth factors; fibroblast growth factors; vascular endothelial growth factors and some immune cell-action of these growth factors, signal-transduction pathways, their roles in proliferation, differentiation and malignant transformation. Students will attend alternating weeks of lectures and discussion of key research papers.