Essentials of Apoptosis : A Guide for Basic and Clinical Research - Yin, Xiao-Ming.; Dong, Zheng; SpringerLink (Online service) (Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2009)
I. Molecules and Pathways of Apoptosis -- Caspases: Activation, Regulation, and Function -- The Bcl-2 Family Proteins -- The Mammalian IAPs: Multifaceted Inhibitors of Apoptosis -- Structural Biology of Programmed Cell Death -- The Death Receptor Pathway -- The Mitochondrial Pathway: Focus on Shape Changes -- The Endoplasmic Reticulum Pathway -- Reactive Oxygen Species in Cell Fate Decisions -- The Integration of Metabolism and Cell Death -- Transcriptional Regulation of Apoptosis -- Clearance of Apoptotic Cells - Mechanisms and Consequences -- Systems Biology Approaches to the Study of Apoptosis -- II: Apoptosis in Model Organisms -- Programmed Cell Death in Plants: Apoptotic but Not Quite -- Tracing the Roots of Death: Apoptosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans -- Cell Death in Drosophila -- III. Apoptosis in Mammalian Physiology and Pathogenesis -- Cell Death: Defining and Misshaping Mammalian Embryos -- Matters of Life and Death in the Immune System -- Cell Death in the Hematopoietic System -- Cell Death in Acute Neuronal Injury -- Apoptosis in Neurodegenerative Diseases -- Apoptosis in Cardiovascular Pathogenesis -- Apoptosis in Lung Injury and Disease -- Apoptosis in Liver Injury and Liver Diseases -- Apoptosis in Acute Kidney Injury -- Apoptosis in Cancer Biology and Cancer Therapeutics -- IV. Alternative cell death mechanisms and pathways -- Necrosis: Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Roles -- Caspase-Independent Mitotic Death -- Lysosomal Proteases in Cell Death -- Autophagy and Cell Death -- V. Approaches to the study of apoptosis -- Analysis of Apoptosis: Basic Principles and Protocols.
Keywords: Cell biology; Biochemistry; Neurosciences; Immunology; Human physiology; Cell Biology; Biochemistry, general; Neurosciences; Immunology; Human Physiology