Machine generated contents note: Part I. 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. BCL-2 family proteins and the control of mitochondrial apoptosis Anthony Letai; 6. Endoplasmic reticulum stress response in cell death and cell survival Michael Boyce, Marta M. Lipinski, Be;ne;dicte 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 pro-apoptotic toxins critical for anti-viral responses and immune homeostasis Katherine Baran, Ilia Voskoboinik, Nigel J. Waterhouse, Vivien R. Sutton and Joseph A. Trapani; Part 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. Apoptosis regulation of the endocrine pancreas and pathophysiology of diabetes 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. Apoptosis in the female reproductive biology - implications for therapy 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 Me;rino and Philippe Bouillet; 30. Cell death regulations 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; Part III. Cell Death in Non-Mammalian Organisms: 33. Programmed cell death in the yeast, S. cerevisiae Valter D. Longo and Cristina Mazzoni; 34. C. 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.