Acute Neuronal Injury

1. Introduction
Denson G. Fujikawa

2. Caspase-Independent Cell Death Mechanisms in Simple Animal Models
Matthias Rieckher, Nektarios Tavernarakis

3. Programmed Necrosis: A “New” Cell Death Outcome for Injured Adult Neurons?
Slavica Krantic, Santos A. Susin

4. Age-Dependence of Neuronal Apoptosis and of Caspase Activation
Denson G. Fujikawa

5. Excitotoxic Programmed Cell Death Involves Caspase-Independent Mechanisms
Ho Chul Kang, Ted M. Dawson, Valina L. Dawson

6. Significant Role of Apoptosis-Inducing Factor (AIF) for Brain Damage Following Focal Cerebral Ischemia
Nikolaus Plesnila, Carsten Culmsee

7. The Role of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1 (PARP-1) Activation in Focal Cerebral Ischemia
Giuseppe Faraco, Alberto Chiarugi

8. Transient Global Cerebral Ischemia Produces Morphologically Necrotic, Not Apoptotic Neurons
Frederick Colbourne, Roland N. Auer

9. Apoptosis-Inducing Factor Translocation to Nuclei After Transient Global Ischemia
Can Liu, Armando P. Signore, Guodong Cao, Jun Chen

10. Role of µ-Calpain I and Lysosomal Cathepsins in Hippocampal Neuronal Necrosis After Transient Global Ischemia in Primates
Anton B. Tonchev, Tetsumori Yamashima

11. Mitochondrial Damage in Traumatic CNS Injury
Laurie M. Davis, Patrick G. Sullivan

12. Programmed Neuronal Cell Death Mechanisms in CNS Injury
Bogdan A. Stoica, Alan I. Faden

13. Hypoglycemic Brain Damage
Roland N. Auer

14. Hypoglycemic Neuronal Death
Raymond A. Swanson, Sang Won Suh

15. Tumor Suppressor p53: A Multifunctional Protein Implicated in Seizure-Induced Neuronal Cell Death
Zhiqun Tan, Steven S. Schreiber

16. DNA Damage and Repair in the Brain: Implications for Seizure-Induced Neuronal Injury, Endangerment, and Neuroprotection
Samantha L. Crowe, Alexei D. Kondratyev

17. Activation of Caspase-Independent Programmed Pathways in Seizure-Induced Neuronal Necrosis
Denson G. Fujikawa

Keywords: Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Neurology, Pathology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Psychiatry