Publisher Summary In the present time there is a true bull market for apoptosis as it has
almost become a household word. Even nonspecialists know that fingers and toes do not
simply grow out of the embryonic hand or foot-adage but develop out of the limb buds by
also involving the death of cells—apoptosis—in the interdigital spaces. It is now known that
apoptosis is involved in many physiological processes, and there is hardly any disease
whose pathogenesis can be explained without apoptosis. Thus, programmed cell death or …