Table of contents for Essentials of apoptosis : a guide for basic and clinical research / edited by Xiao-Ming Yin and Zheng Dong.

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Preface .......................................................................................v
Contributors  ..............................................................................  ix


PART I: MOLECULES AND PATHWAYS OF APOPTOSIS

 1 * Caspases: Structure, Activation Pathways, and Substrates ................................ 3
    Brona M. Murphy and Seamus J. Martin
 2 * Bcl-2 Family Proteins: Master Regulators of Apoptosis................................... 13
    Xiao-Ming Yin, Wen-Xing Ding, and Yongge Zhao
 3 * Inhibitors  of Apoptosis  Proteins ..................................................... 29
    Peter Liston, Wai Gin Fong, and Robert G. Korneluk
 4 * Structural Biology of Programmed Cell Death ............................................ 47
    Yigong Shi
 5 * The Death Receptor Family and the Extrinsic Pathway ........................ ........... 67
    Maria Eugenia Guicciardi and Gregory J. Gores
 6 * The Mitochondrial Apoptosis Pathway .................................................... 85
    Bruno Antonsson
 7 * From Caspases to Alternative Cell-Death Mechanisms .................................... 101
    Marja Jiitteld and Marcel Leist

PART II: APOPTOSIS IN ACTION

 8 * Apoptosis in Plants, Yeast, and Bacteria .............................................. 125
    Ron Mittler and Vladimir Shulaev
 9 * Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans ................................................... 135
     Yi-Chun Wu and Ding Xue
10 * Cell Death  in  Drosophila     ................................ ....................... 145
    Sujin Bao and Ross L. Cagan
11 * Cell Death in Mammalian Development ................................................... 163
     Chia-Yi Kuan and Keisuke Kuida
12 * Apoptosis and Cancer: Pathogenic and Therapeutic Implications ......................... 177
     Sean L. O'Connor, Fermin Briones, Nikhil S. Chari, Song H. Cho,
       Rebecca L. Hamm, Yoshihiko Kadowaki, Sangjun Lee, Kevin B. Spurgers,
       and Timothy J. McDonnell



13 * Cell Death in Immune, Inflammatory, and Stress Responses .............................. 201
    J. John Cohen, Maria D. Devore, Mile Cikara, and Elizabeth A. Dowling
14 * Cell-Death Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Diversity
      Among Cerebral Ischemia, Parkinson's Disease, and Huntington's
      Disease  ............................................................................  211
    R. Anne Stetler and Jun Chen
15 * Apoptosis in Ischemic Disease  ........................................................ 225
    Zheng Dong and Manjeri A. Venkatachalam

PART III: APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF APOPTOSIS

16 * Analysis of Apoptosis: Basic Principles and Procedures ................................ 239
    Li Bai, Jinzhao Wang, Xiao-Ming Yin, and Zheng Dong
Index  ..................................................................................... 253