Table of Contents

1: Nicola McCarthy: Why be interested in death?
2: Ding Xue, Yi-Chun Wu, Manisha Shah: Programmed cell death in C.elegans: the genetic framework
3: Andreas Bergmann, Hermann Steller: Genetic and molecular analysis of programmed cell death in Drosophila
4: Natalie Roy, Michael Cardone: The caspases: from here to eternity
5: Yoshihide Tsujimoto: Regulation of apoptosis by the Bcl-2 family of proteins
6: Naoufal Zamzami, Santos Susin, Guido Kroemer: Mitochondria in apoptosis: Pandora's Box
7: Paul Clarke: Apoptosis: lessons from free cell systems
8: Nicola McCarthy, Martin Bennett: Death signalling by the CD95/TNFR family of death domain containing receptors
9: Thomas Franke: Survival signalling by phosphorylation: PI3K/Akt sets the stage
10: David Vaux: Viruses and apoptosis
11: Michael Jacobson, Louise Bergeron: Cell death in the nervous system

Reviews

The book is, essentially, a series of reviews of a quality you would expect to find in the top scientific journals. Not only will it prove a good introduction to researchers new to the field, it provides a very useful reference guide to those of us who are not specialists in PCD, but upon whose work the subject often impinges. Journal of Biological Education All the subjects are addressed at just the right level of complexity, with the emphasis on molecular processes involved ... four excellent colour plates. Journal of Biological Education