Description:“This volume presents an excellent overview into the world of cell adhesion. It provides important details about the main players in all aspects of cell junctions.” –The Quarterly Review of Biology, September 2009 Eagerly awaited, this comprehensive book on a topic of fundamental importance in our understanding of cancer begins with an overview of cellular junctions, before covering in detail cell-matrix junctions, cell-cell junctions as well as cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesion. This reference work is of high interest to cell and molecular biologists, cancer researchers, oncologists, biochemists, pharmaceutists and those working in the pharmaceutical industry.