Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Introduction / Richard A. Lockshin and Zahra Zakeri -- 2. Cell Death: Shaping an Embryo / Zahra Zakeri and Richard A. Lockshin -- 3. Cell Death in Dictyostelium: Assessing a Genetic Approach / Jean-Pierre Levraud, Myriam Adam, Marie-Francoise Luciani, Laurence Aubry, Gerard Klein and Pierre Glostein -- 4. Programmed Cell Death in Drosophila Melanogaster / Loretta Dorstyn and Sharad Kumar -- 5. Cell Death in Plant Development and Defense / Ron Mittler and Alice Y. Cheung -- 6. Regulation of Apoptosis by Extacellular Matrix during Postembryonic Development in Xenopus laevis / Atsuko Ishizuya-Oka, Tosikazu Amano, Liezhen Fu and Yun-Bo Shi -- 7. Apoptosis in the Immune System / Alexandra Bras, David Garcia-Domingo and Carlos Martinez-A. -- 8. Cell Death in Neuronal Development and Maintenance / Aviva M. Tolkovsky, Edward T. W. Bampton and Cristoph G. Goemans -- 9. Cell Turnover: Intestine and Other Tissues / James W. Wilson and Christopher S. Potten -- 10. Cell Death, Aging Phenotypes, and Models of Premature Aging / Huber R. Warner -- 11. Survival Factors / David L. Vaux -- 12. Caspase-independent and Autophagic Programmed Cell Death / Wilfried Bursch, Adolf Ellinger, Christopher Gerner and Rolf Schulte-Hermann -- 13. The Recognition and Engulfment of Apoptotic Cells by Phagocytes / Raymond B. Birge -- 14. Cell Cycle Genes: pRb and p53 / Nianli Sang and Antonio Giordano -- 15. Mitochondria and Oxidation in the Regulation of Cell Death / John D. Robertson, Sten Orrenius and Boris Zhivotovsky -- 16. The Use of Proteomics to Identify and Characterize Cell Death Proteins / Xavier Saelens, Geert van Loo, Kris Gevaert, Joel Vanderkerckhove and Peter Vandenabeele -- 17. Cell Death in Viral Infections / Ying-bei Chen, Yihru Fannjiang and J. Marie Hardwick -- 18. Cell Death in Cancer and Cancer Therapy / Simone Fulda and Klaus-Michael Debatin -- 19. The Roll of Apoptosis in Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure / Kartik Mani, Chang-Fu Peng, Gregg Rosner and Richard N. Kitsis.

Classification

• LCC: QH671

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: xi, 549 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
• Edition Info: (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects

• Apoptosis
• Apoptosis -- physiology

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