Signalling pathways in apoptosis / edited by Diane Watters and Martin Lavin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Part1 Inducers of Apoptosis -- 1 The Death Receptors -- Klaus Schulze-Osthoff and Marcus E. Peter -- 2 The Role of Sphingolipids in Stress Responses and Apoptosis in -- Eukaryotes -- Sheree D. Long and YusufA. Hannun -- 3 Radiation Response Pathways and Apoptosis -- Martin F. Lavin -- Part 2 Regulation of Apoptosis -- 4 Kinase Cascades and Apoptosis -- John F. Hancock -- 5 Protein Kinase C Isoenzymes: Evidence for Selectivity in the Regulation -- ofApoptosis -- Janet M. Lord, Elizabeth M. Deacon, Lorna McMillan, Gareth Griffiths, -- Hema Chahal andJudit Pongracz -- 6 Apoptosis in Drosophila -- John M. Abrams, Po Chen, William Nordstrom andJohnson Varkey -- 7 Baculoviral Lessons in Apoptosis -- ChristineJ. Hawkins, ElizabethJ. Coulson and David L. Vaux -- 8 The Mitochondrion: Decisive for Cell Death Control? -- Catherine Brenner and Guido Kroemer -- 9 Caspases and the Commitment to Death -- Deborah M. Finucane, Thomas G. Cotter and Douglas R. Green -- Part 3 The Execution of Apoptosis -- 10 Caspases: The Molecular Effectors of Apoptosis -- AlisonJ. Butt and Sharad Kumar -- 11 Killer Cells - Deliverers of Exogenous Death Proteases -- MarkJ. Smyth, Vivien R. Sutton and Joseph A. Trapani -- 12 Substrates of Cell Death Proteases and their Role in Apoptosis -- Dianne Watters and Nigel Waterhouse -- Index.