Apoptosis : physiology and pathology / edited by John C. Reed, Douglas R. Green.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reed, John C., 1958- editor.

Green, Douglas R., editor.

ebrary, Inc.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apoptosis.

Apoptosis--physiology.

Cell Death.

Medical Subjects:

Apoptosis.

Apoptosis--physiology.

Cell Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 421 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Contributions from experts in the field focus on aspects of apoptosis, or cell death, from fundamental processes to apoptosis-related diseases.

Contents:

. General Principles Of Cell Death: 1. Human caspases

Apoptosis and Inflammation Signaling Proteases / Guy S. Salvesen; 2. Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins / Jason B. Garrison, Andreas Krieg, Kate Welsh, Yunfei Wen, and John C. Reed; 3. Death Domain-Containing Receptors: Decisions Between Suicide and Fire / Henning Walczak and Chahrazade Kantari; 4. Mitochondria and Cell Death / Gavin P. McStay and Douglas R. Green; 5. The Control of Mitrochondrial Apoptosis by the BCL-2 Family / Anthony Letai; 6. Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response in Cell Death and Cell Survival / Michael Boyce, Marta M. Lipinski, Bénédicte F. Py and Junying Yuan; 7. Autophagy- The Liaison between the Lysosomal System and Cell Death / Hiroshi Koga and Ana Maria Cuervo; 8. Cell Death in Response to Genotoxic Stress and DNA Damage / Pablo Lopez-Bergami and Ze'ev Ronai; 9. Ceramide and Lipid Mediators in Apoptosis / Thomas D. Mullen, Russell W. Jenkins, Lina M. Obeid, and Yusuf A. Hannun; 10. Cytotoxic Granules House Potent Proapoptotic Toxins Critical for Antiviral Responses and Immune Homeostasis / Katherine Baran, Ilia Voskoboinik, Nigel J. Waterhouse, Vivien R. Sutton and Joseph A. Trapani

II. Cell Death In Tissues And Organs: 11. Cell Death in Nervous System Development and Neurological Disease / Juying Li and Junying Yuan; 12. Role of Programmed Cell Death in Neurodegenerative Diseases / Dale E. Bredesen; 13. Implications of Nitrosative Stress-Induced Protein Misfolding in Neurodegeneration / Tomohiro Nakamura and Stuart A. Lipton; 14. Mitochondrial Mechanisms of Neural Cell Death in Cerebral Ischemia / Lucian Soane, Brian M. Polster, and Gary Fiskum; 15. Cell Death in Spinal Cord Injury- An Evolving Taxonomy with Therapeutic Promise / Rajiv R. Ratan and Moses V. Chao; 16. Apoptosis and Homeostasis in the Eye / Jerry Y. Niederkorn; 17. Cell Death in the Inner Ear / Lisa L. Cunningham and Justin Tan; 18. Cell Death in the Olfactory System / Pawel Kermer; 19. Contribution of Apoptosis to Physiologic Remodeling of the Endocrine / Nika N. Danial; 20. Apoptosis in the Physiology and Diseases of the Respiratory Tract / Christian Taube and Martin Schuler; 21. Regulation of Cell Death in the Gastrointestinal Track / Maria Eugenia Guicciardi and Gregory J. Gores; 22. Apoptosis in the Kidney / Juan Antonio Moreno, Adrian Mario Ramos, and Alberto Ortiz; 23. Physiological and Pathological Cell Death in the Mammary Gland / Armelle Melet and and Roya Khosravi-Far; 24. Therapeutic Targeting Apoptosis in Female Reproductive Biology / Kaisa Selesniemi and Jonathan L. Tilly; 25. Apoptotic Signaling in Male Germ Cells / Amiya P. Sinha Hikim, Yue Jia, Yan-He Lue, Christina Wang, and Ronald S. Swerdloff; 26. Cell Death in the Cardiovascular System / Vladimir Kaplinskiy, Martin R. Bennett, and Richard N. Kitsis; 27. Cell Death Regulation in Muscle / Ayesha Saleem, Lawrence Kazak, Michael O'Leary, and David A. Hood; 28. Cell Death in the Skin / Saskia Lippens, Esther Hoste, Peter Vandenabeele, and Wim Declercq; 29. Apoptosis and Cell Survival in the Immune System / Delphine Mérino and Philippe Bouillet; 30. Cell Death Regulation in the Hematopoietic System / Paul A. Ney; 31. Apoptotic Cell Death in Sepsis / Pavan Brahmamdam, Jared T. Muenzer, Richard S. Hotchkiss, and Jonathan E. McDunn; 32. Host-Pathogen Interactions / Maya Saleh

III. Cell Death in Nonmammalian Organisms: 33. Programmed Cell Death in the Yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Valter D. Longo and Cristina Mazzoni; 34. Caenorhabditis elegans and Apoptosis / Brian L. Harry and Ding Xue; 35. Apoptoic Cell Death in Drosophila / Kathleen Galindo and John M. Abrams; 36. Analysis of Cell Death in Zebrafish / Ujwal J. Pyati and A. Thomas Look.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Apoptosis.

ISBN:

1139114212

9781139114219

Publisher Number:

99946463565

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.