Essentials of Apoptosis: A Guide for Basic and Clinical Research

✍ Scribed by Brona M. Murphy, Seamus J. Martin (auth.), Xiao-Ming Yin MD, PhD, Zheng Dong PhD (eds.)

• Publisher: Humana Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Caspases....Pages 3-12
Bcl-2 Family Proteins....Pages 13-27
Inhibitors of Apoptosis Proteins....Pages 29-46
Structural Biology of Programmed Cell Death....Pages 47-65
The Death Receptor Family and the Extrinsic Pathway....Pages 67-84
The Mitochondrial Apoptosis Pathway....Pages 85-99
From Caspases to Alternative Cell-Death Mechanisms....Pages 101-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Apoptosis in Plants, Yeast, and Bacteria....Pages 125-133
Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans ....Pages 135-144
Cell Death in Drosophila ....Pages 145-161
Cell Death in Mammalian Development....Pages 163-175
Apoptosis and Cancer....Pages 177-199
Cell Death in Immune, Inflammatory, and Stress Responses....Pages 201-210
Cell-Death Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Diseases....Pages 211-224
Apoptosis in Ischemic Disease....Pages 225-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Analysis of Apoptosis....Pages 239-251
Back Matter....Pages 253-259

✦ Subjects

Cell Biology