Essentials of Apoptosis

2. Caspases: Activation, Regulation, and Function
Stefan J. Riedl, Fiona L. Scott

3. The Bcl-2 Family Proteins
Wen-Xing Ding, Xiao-Ming Yin

4. The Mammalian IAPs: Multifaceted Inhibitors of Apoptosis
Eric C. LaCasse, Herman H. Cheung, Allison M. Hunter, Stephanie Plenchette, Douglas J. Mahoney, Robert G. Korneluk

5. Structural Biology of Programmed Cell Death
Yigong Shi

6. The Death Receptor Pathway
Maria Eugenia Guicciardi, Gregory J. Gores

7. The Mitochondrial Pathway: Focus on Shape Changes
Silvia Campello, Luca Scorrano

8. The Endoplasmic Reticulum Pathway
Michael W. Harr, Clark W. Distelhorst

9. Reactive Oxygen Species in Cell Fate Decisions
Han-Ming Shen, Shazib Pervaiz

10. The Integration of Metabolism and Cell Death
Jonathan L. Coloff, Yuxing Zhao, Jeffrey C. Rathmell

11. Transcriptional Regulation of Apoptosis
Crissy Dudgeon, Wei Qiu, Quanhong Sun, Lin Zhang, Jian Yu

12. Clearance of Apoptotic Cells – Mechanisms and Consequences
Carylyn J. Marek, Lars-Peter Erwig

13. Systems Biology Approaches to the Study of Apoptosis
Heinrich Huber, Eric Bullinger, Markus Rehm

14. Programmed Cell Death in Plants: Apoptotic but Not Quite
Naohide Watanabe, Eric Lam

15. Tracing the Roots of Death: Apoptosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Didac Carmona-Gutierrez, Frank Madeo

16. Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans

Monica Darland-Ransom, Yi-Chun Wu, Ding Xue

17. Cell Death in Drosophila

Dianne C. Purves, Jessica P. Monserrate, Carrie Baker Brachmann

18. Cell Death: Defining and Misshaping Mammalian Embryos
Zahra Zakeri, Richard A. Lockshin

19. Matters of Life and Death in the Immune System
Christopher P. Dillon, Douglas R. Green

20. Cell Death in the Hematopoietic System
Emma C. Josefsson, Benjamin T. Kile

21. Cell Death in Acute Neuronal Injury
R. Anne Stetler, Armando P. Signore, Jun Chen

22. Apoptosis in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Qiuli Liang, Jianhua Zhang

23. Apoptosis in Cardiovascular Pathogenesis
Hamid el Azzouzi, Meriem Bourajjaj, Paula A. Martins, Leon J. Windt

24. Apoptosis in Lung Injury and Disease
Stefan W. Ryter, Hong Pyo Kim, Augustine M. K. Choi

25. Apoptosis in Liver Injury and Liver Diseases
Yosuke Osawa, Ekihiro Seki, David A. Brenner

26. Apoptosis in Acute Kidney Injury
Navjotsingh Pabla, Qingqing Wei, Zheng Dong

27. Apoptosis in Cancer Biology and Cancer Therapeutics
Simone Fulda

28. Necrosis: Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Roles
Linde Duprez, Nele Vanlangenakker, Nele Festjens, Franky Herreweghe, Tom Vanden Berghe, Peter Vandenabeele

29. Caspase-Independent Mitotic Death
Katsumi Kitagawa

30. Lysosomal Proteases in Cell Death
Nathalie Andrieu-Abadie

31. Autophagy and Cell Death
Wentao Gao, Jeong-Han Kang, Yong Liao, Min Li, Xiao-Ming Yin

32. Analysis of Apoptosis: Basic Principles and Protocols
Man Jiang, Craig Brooks, Guie Dong, Xiaoning Li, Hong-Min Ni, Xiao-Ming Yin, Zheng Dong

Keywords: Life Sciences, Human Physiology, Immunology, Neurosciences, Biochemistry, general, Cell Biology