TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 16, Issue 3 (March 2009)
Special Issue on Cell death mechanisms
Although cell death occurs in many different ways, it uses several common and evolutionarily conserved mechanisms. These control distinct forms of cell demise ranging from necrosis and excitotoxicity to autophagy and apoptosis. This review series
comprises state-of the art reviews, which summarise our knowledge of basic mechanisms of cell death in a context of different
pathological processes. Articles, written by the leaders in the field, present a comprehensive picture of cell-death routines and
their role in shaping diseases. This collection of papers should serve as a key resource to researchers in cell biology,
neurobiology, oncology, biochemistry and pharmacology.
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Editorial
The cell death forum 
FREE
A Verkhratsky and A Hague
Cell Death Differ 16: 359; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.180
Reviews
Bcl-2 inhibitors: small molecules with a big impact on cancer therapy
M Vogler, D Dinsdale, M J S Dyer and G M Cohen
Cell Death Differ 16: 360-367; advance online publication, September 19, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.137
Tumour cell survival signalling by the ERK1/2 pathway FREE
K Balmanno and S J Cook
Cell Death Differ 16: 368-377; advance online publication, October 10, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.148
Astroglia in dementia and Alzheimer's disease FREE
J J Rodríguez, M Olabarria, A Chvatal and A Verkhratsky
Cell Death Differ 16: 378-385; advance online publication, December 5, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.172
Original Papers
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40 promotes neuronal cell fate in neural progenitor cells
Y Chen and C Dong
Cell Death Differ 16: 386-394; advance online publication, June 20, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.94
Cell growth suppression by thanatos-associated protein 11(THAP11) is mediated by transcriptional downregulation of c-Myc
C-Y Zhu, C-Y Li, Y Li, Y-Q Zhan, Y-H Li, C-W Xu, W-X Xu, H B Sun and X-M Yang
Cell Death Differ 16: 395-405; advance online publication, November 14, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.160
Neuropeptides kill African trypanosomes by targeting intracellular compartments and inducing autophagic-like cell death
M Delgado, P Anderson, J A Garcia-Salcedo, M Caro and E Gonzalez-Rey
Cell Death Differ 16: 406-416; advance online publication, December 5, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.161
Galectin-1 promotes basal and kainate-induced proliferation of neural progenitors in the dentate gyrus of adult mouse hippocampus
K Kajitani, H Nomaru, M Ifuku, N Yutsudo, Y Dan, T Miura, D Tsuchimoto, K Sakumi, T Kadoya, H Horie, F Poirier, M Noda and Y Nakabeppu
Cell Death Differ 16: 417-427; advance online publication, November 14, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.162
Aggresome-forming TTRAP mediates pro-apoptotic properties of Parkinson's disease-associated DJ-1 missense mutations
S Zucchelli, S Vilotti, R Calligaris, Z S Lavina, M Biagioli, R Foti, L De Maso, M Pinto, M Gorza, E Speretta, C Casseler, G Tell, G Del Sal and S Gustincich
Cell Death Differ 16: 428-438; advance online publication, November 21, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.169
Regional hippocampal differences in AKT survival signaling across the lifespan: implications for CA1 vulnerability with aging
T C Jackson, A Rani, A Kumar and T C Foster
Cell Death Differ 16: 439-448; advance online publication, November 28, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.171
Mitochondrial dysfunction triggered by loss of HtrA2 results in the activation of a brain-specific transcriptional stress response
N Moisoi, K Klupsch, V Fedele, P East, S Sharma, A Renton, H Plun-Favreau, R E Edwards, P Teismann, M D Esposti, A D Morrison, N W Wood, J Downward and L M Martins
Cell Death Differ 16: 449-464; advance online publication, November 21, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.166
Endogenous PTX3 translocates at the membrane of late apoptotic human neutrophils and is involved in their engulfment by macrophages
S Jaillon, P Jeannin, Y Hamon, I Frémaux, A Doni, B Bottazzi, S Blanchard, J-F Subra, A Chevailler, A Mantovani and Y Delneste
Cell Death Differ 16: 465-474; advance online publication, December 12, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.173
Polarized fluid movement and not cell death, creates luminal spaces in adult prostate epithelium
J F Pearson, S Hughes, K Chambers and S H Lang
Cell Death Differ 16: 475-482; advance online publication, December 19, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.181
Mitotic catastrophe is the predominant response to histone acetyltransferase depletion
G-H Ha, H-S Kim, C G Lee, H-Y Park, E-J Kim, H-J Shin, J-C Lee, K-W Lee and C-W Lee
Cell Death Differ 16: 483-497; advance online publication, December 19, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.182
Inhibition of Aurora B kinase sensitizes a subset of human glioma cells to TRAIL concomitant with induction of TRAIL-R2
J Li, M G Anderson, L A Tucker, Y Shen, K B Glaser and O J Shah
Cell Death Differ 16: 498-511; advance online publication, December 12, 2008; doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.174
