NIH Special Interests Groups - Apoptosis Interest Group


Links to worthy apoptosis web sites

New York Area Cell Death Society--NY City Apoptosis Interest Group: Meetings, discussions, apoptosis diagrams

Apoptosis: Dance of Death--U.Va brings you apoptotic neutrophils blebbing themselves to death while you watch

The Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte--Movie and micrographs of a killer T cell destroying a flu-infected cell by Mark Esser and Vivian Brachiale (U.Va)

Apoptosis Provides New Targets for Chemotherapy--News and Views style piece from NCI

Fibroblasts blebbing to death in spite of caspase inhibitors--Provocative movies from Gerald Evans' group (see J.Cell Biology 136:215 [1997])


The following are 3 apoptosis items from the spectacular Mammary Gland Web Site constructed by Lothar Hennighausen:

Apoptosis in the involuting mammary gland--Nice examples of apoptotic morphology in this minireview by Claudio Vallan, Zhiwei Feng, and Rolf Jaggi (Univ.of Bern)

Extracellular matrix control of apoptosis--Summary of research in this area emphasizing the role of matrix metalloproteases by Zena Werb (UCSF)

p53-independent apoptosis induction in transgenic mice expressing SV40 T antigen in mammary tissue--Research paper by Priscilla Furth (NIH)


A collection of other apoptosis links including companies selling kits



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Opinionated selection by Pierre Henkart, February 5, 1997