Programmed cell death in animals and plants / edited by J.A. Bryant, S.G. Hughes, and J.M. Garland.

Oxford, UK : BIOS Scientific Publishers, 2000.

xviii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Apoptotic cell death: from worms to wombats - but what about the weeds? / M.O. Hengartner and J.A. Bryant -- Caspases - at the cutting edge of cell death / H.R. Stennicke -- Modulation of death receptor signalling / P. Schneider and J. Tschopp -- The role of the Bcl-2 family in the modulation of apoptosis / C. Pepper and P. Bentley -- The role of granzymes and serpins in regulating cell growth and death / P. Coughlin, E. Morris and L. Hampson -- Mitochondria and cell death: a pore way to die? / A.P. Halestrap ... [et al.] -- Regulation of apoptosis by cell metabolism, cytochrome c and the cytoskeleton / J.M. Garland -- Organelle-specific death pathways / K.T. Pun and R.J. Brown -- Telomeres, telomerase and cellular immortalization / C.J. Jones -- Back from the brink: plant senescence and its reversibility / H. Thomas and I. Donnison -- Senescence and cell death in Brassica napus and Arabidopsis / V. Buchanan-Wollaston and K. Morris -- Cytokinin and its receptors / R. Hooley -- Ethylene-triggered cell death during aerenchyma formation in roots / M.C. Drew, C.-J. He and P.W. Morgan -- Targeted cell death in xylogenesis / M.C. McCann, N.J. Stacey and K. Roberts -- Abscission and dehiscence / J.A. Roberts -- Regulation of cell cycle arrest and cell death - alternative responses to DNA damage / C. Norbury -- Tissue transglutaminase in cell death / M. Griffin and E. Verderio -- Pathways used by adenovirus E1B 19K to inhibit apoptosis / K. Degenhardt, D. Perez and E. White -- Tumour cell death / I.D. Bowen and F. Amin -- Controlling apoptosis: implications for carcinogenesis / A.R. Clarke -- Type I interferons inhibit the resolution of chronic inflammation / D. Scheel-Toellner ... [et al.] -- Death of plant cells and their contribution to rumen function / A.H. Kingston-Smith and M.K. Theodorou -- Postscript: some concluding observations and speculations / S.G. Hughes and J.M. Garland.

Includes bibliographical references.