Cell Death provides a current and comprehensive collection of methods for the study of cell death. Using a diverse range of technical approaches and model systems, the chapters in this volume cover topics from the cellular and organismal to the molecular and anatomical. In the tradition of this long-standing series, this volume's user-friendly recipes and more than 100 tables and figures make the study of cell death accessible across life science disciplines. Because of breakthroughs such as the "switching" mechanism of the p53 tumor suppressor gene, as well as many technical innovations, the number of investigators of cell death has rapidly expanded over the last few years. Students of apoptosis and other types of cell death hypothesize that virtually all cells are genetically programmed to self-destruct. In turn, they also have learned that massive cell death does not always represent pathology, but rather a normal and necessary "weeding out" in the development and life of an organism. The clinical implications are immense, as the understanding and ability to regulate this process may offer the potential to treat cancer and a wide variety of other disorders.

Includes index.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Anatomical methods in cell death / John F.R. Kerr [and others] -- Identification of dying cells : in situ staining / Shmuel A. Ben-Sasson, Yoav Sherman, and Yael Gavrieli -- Assays for DNA fragmentation, endonucleases, and intracellular pH and Ca²+ associated with apoptosis / Alan Eastman -- Quantification of apoptotic events in pure and heterogeneous populations of cells using the flow cytometer / Pamela J. Fraker [and others] -- Cell cycle analysis of apoptosis using flow cytometry / Steven W. Sherwood and Robert T. Schimke -- Transient transfection assays to examine the requirement of putative cell death genes / Barbara A. Osborne [and others] -- Cloning cell death genes / Lawrence M. Schwartz [and others] -- Use of the yeast two-hybrid system for identifying the cascade of protein interactions resulting in apoptotic cell death / Lynne T. Bemis, F. Jon Geske, and Robert Strange -- The end of the (cell) line : methods for the study of apoptosis in vitro / Anne J. McGahon [and others] -- Calcium, free radicals, and excitotoxic neuronal death in primary cell culture / Mark P. Mattson [and others].

Use of cultured neurons and neuronal cell lines to study morphological, biochemical, and molecular changes occurring in cell death / Jason C. Mills [and others] -- Methods for studying cell death and viability in primary neuronal cultures / James E. Johnson -- Neuron death in vertebrate development : in vivo methods / Peter G.H. Clarke and Ronald W. Oppenheim -- Methods for the study of cell death in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans / Monica Driscoll -- Programmed cell death during mammary gland involution / Robert Strange [and others] -- Hormonal control of apoptosis : the rat prostate glad as a model system / Marc C. Colombel and Ralph Buttyan -- Genetic approaches for studying programmed cell death during development of the laboratory mouse / Electra C. Coucouvanis, Gail R. Martin, and Joseph H. Nadeau.

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