Apoptosis (Programmed Cell Death)
- Apoptosis -
Overview of the process with a particular emphasis on the role of nitric
oxide. (Reproductive and Cardiovascular Disease Research Group, St. George's
Hospital Medical School, University of London, UK)
- Apoptosis Info - Apoptosis research
protocols, bioinformatics on cell suicide, articles and news on apoptotic
factors and research.
- Apoptosis MINICOPE Dictionary - "[O]ne of several subdictionaries of COPE [...] This dictionary contains entries directly or indirectly bearing on cell death by apoptosis and other death mechanisms."
- Apoptosis-db.org - A database-driven
site that keeps a current list of proteins and protein domaines involved
in apoptosis using automated bioinformatics analysis. It also has diagrams,
structural models and interaction diagrams between proteins with respect
to domains. (The Burnham Institute)
- Apoptosis:
Overall Scheme - Basic overview of apoptosis, with a useful table outlining
differences between apoptosis and necrosis. (Neuromuscular Disease Center,
Washington University School of Medicine)
- Apoptosis:
Programmed Cell Death - Basic overview covering apoptotic signals,
caspases and caspase substrates and pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins. (Part
of Biochemistry
Online: An Approach Based on Chemical Logic, Henry Jakubowski, College
of St. Benedict/St. John's University)
- Apoptosis, Caspase and Cell Death Resources -
Links to apoptosis and caspase-related resources.
- Cancer
Research UK FACS Laboratory: Apoptosis - Methods for detection of apoptosis
using flow cytometry. (Derek Davies, FACS Laboratory, Cancer Research UK)
- CellDeath.de - "CellDeath.de
intends to be a forum for apoptosis-related subjects" and contains information,
methods, links to labs, apoptosis-related job listings, a discussion forum
and news.
- Cell Death Society - A general
overview of apoptosis and programmed cell death.
- CELLS Alive!: Apoptosis -
Image sequence of a neutrophil undergoing apoptosis. (Beginner's
Level)
- Cell
Death Society Web site)
- The Interactive
Fly: Programmed Cell Death (Apoptosis) - "A common pathway for
developmentally regulated cell death." (Society for Developmental
Biology)
- Kimball's
Biology Pages: Apoptosis - Basic information on apoptosis ("death
by suicide" as opposed to "death by injury" or necrosis). (Beginner's
Level)
- List of Apoptosis
Regulators - Links to database information on a large number of protein
regulators of apoptosis. (Naohiro Inohara, University of Michigan)
- Molecular
Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease: Apoptosis-Related Genes - Links to
apoptosis-related gene information in the Online Mendalian Inheritance
in Man (OMIM) database. (Alzheimer's Research Forum)
- NIH Apoptosis Interest Group -
A site designed to facilitate communication between scientists at the NIH and
in the Washington area interested in apoptosis and programmed cell death
with monthly seminars open to the public; also sponsors an accompanying e-mail
list.
- Programmed
Cell Death in Development from the Dynamic
Development site, a part of "The
Virtual Embryo" (Just above Beginner's
Level)
- Picture
of the Caspase Family - Information on caspases (interleukin-1β-converting
enzyme/Ced3-like - ICE-like - family of proteases).
- The Phytoplankton
Cell Death Page - An overview of programmed cell death in microalgae.
(John A. Berges, Queen's University of Belfast)
- Science
News Digest for Physicians and Scientists: Apoptosis Page - Tables
of information on apoptosis - characteristics, phases, signals and proteins
involved with links to other sites devoted to apoptosis.
- Wikipedia - Free online encyclopedia
with basic overviews. (Beginner's Level)
See also the Cell Cycle and Cytokinesis, Cell
Senescence, Molecular and Cell Biology of
Development and Signal Transduction pages.
Discussion Groups
See also the Discussion
Groups section of the General
Resources and Tutorials page.
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