Cell death is a crucial process during development, homeostasis and immune regulation of multicellular organisms, and its dysregulation is associated with numerous pathologies. Cell death is often induced upon pathogen infection as part of the defense mechanism, and pathogens have evolved strategies to modulate host cell death. In this review, we will discuss the molecular mechanisms and physio...

introduction: dna damage, as an important initiator of neuronal cell death, has been implicated in numerous neurodegenerative conditions. previously we have delineated several pathways that control embryonic cortical neuronal cell death evoked by the dna-damaging agent, camptothecin. the camptothecin, topoisomerase ι inhibitor, has been shown to induce cortical neuronal cell death in a reproduc...

objective(s): abnormal lung cell death including autophagy and apoptosis is the central feature in acute lung injury (ali). to identify the cellular mechanisms and the chronology by which different types of lung cell death are activated during lipopolysaccharide (lps)-induced ali, we decided to evaluate autophagy (by lc3-ii and autophagosome) and apoptosis (by caspase-3) at different time point...