Apoptosis, Cell Signaling, and Human Diseases: Molecular Mechanisms, Volume 2 Book

Section I. Kinases and Phosphatases

Significance of Protein Kinase A in Cancer

Maria V. Nesterova and Y. S. Cho-Chung

Protein Kinase C and Cancer

Mary E. Reyland

The Role of PI3K-Akt Signal Transduction in Virus Infection

Samantha Cooray

Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 5: A Target for Neuroprotection?

Frank Gillardon

Critical Roles of the Raf/MEK/ERK Pathway in Apoptosis and Drug Resistance

James A. McCubrey, Fred E. Bertrand, Linda S. Steelman, Fumin Chang, David M. Terrian, and Richard A. Franklin

MAP Kinases Signaling in Human Diseases

Philippe Roux and J.Blenis

Serine/Threonine Protein Phosphates in Apoptosis

Gro Gausdal, Camilla Krakstad, Lars Herfindal, and Stein Ove Doskeland

Urokinase/Urokinase Receptor-Mediated Signaling in Cancer

Sreerama Shetty, and Steven Idell

Section II. Molecular Basis of Cell Death

Signaling Pathways That Protect the Heart Against Apoptosis Induced by Ischemia and Reperfusion

Zheqing Cai and Gregg L. Semenza

Cyclooxygenase-2 Gene Expression: Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Controls in Intestinal Tumorigenesis

Shrikant Anant and Sripathi M. Sureban

Death Receptors: Mechanisms, Biology and Therapeutic Potential

Sharmila Shankar and Rakesh Srivastava

DNA Damage-Dependent Apoptosis

Tomasz Skorski

The Role of Proteasome in Apoptosis

Peter Low

Apoptosis Induction in T Lymphocytes by HIV

Maria Saveria Gilardini Montani

Inhibitors of Apoptosis Proteins and Caspases

Jai Yu, John Silke and Paul G. Ekert

Intracellular Pathways Involved in DNA-Damage and Repair to Neuronal Apoptosis

Maurizio Memo

The Biology of Caspases

Tasman James Daish and Sharad Kumar