Cells  

Yuanyuan Li and Akira Nakagawara

Neuroblastoma (NB) is one of the most common malignant solid tumors in childhood, which derives from the sympathoadrenal lineage of the neural crest and exhibits extremely heterogeneous biological and clinical behaviors. The infant patients frequently und... see more

Jonathan Bard

Systems biology has two general aims: a narrow one, which is to discover how complex networks of proteins work, and a broader one, which is to integrate the molecular and network data with the generation and function of organism phenotypes. Doing all this... see more

Pablo A. Iglesias

One of the principle tasks of systems biology has been the reverse engineering of signaling networks. Because of the striking similarities to engineering systems, a number of analysis and design tools from engineering disciplines have been used in this pr... see more

Subhadip Raychaudhuri and Somkanya C Raychaudhuri

Apoptotic cell death is coordinated through two distinct (type 1 and type 2) intracellular signaling pathways. How the type 1/type 2 choice is made remains a central problem in the biology of apoptosis and has implications for apoptosis related diseases a... see more

Janina Bahnemann, Negar Rajabi, Grischa Fuge, Oscar Platas Barradas, Jörg Müller, Ralf Pörtner and An-Ping Zeng

For the quantitative analysis of cellular metabolism and its dynamics it is essential to achieve rapid sampling, fast quenching of metabolism and the removal of extracellular metabolites. Common manual sample preparation methods and protocols for cells ar... see more

Driss El Kebir and János G. Filep

Resolution of acute inflammation is an active process that requires inhibition of further leukocyte recruitment and removal of leukocytes from inflamed sites. Emigrated neutrophils undergo apoptosis before being removed by scavenger macrophages. Recent st... see more

Alejandro F. Villaverde, John Ross and Julio R. Banga

Building mathematical models of cellular networks lies at the core of systems biology. It involves, among other tasks, the reconstruction of the structure of interactions between molecular components, which is known as network inference or reverse enginee... see more

Maria Grazia Bottone, Giada Santin, Francesca Aredia, Graziella Bernocchi, Carlo Pellicciari and Anna Ivana Scovassi

An apoptotic program leading to controlled cell dismantling implies perturbations of nuclear dynamics, as well as changes affecting the organelle structure and distribution. In human cancer cells driven to apoptosis by different stimuli, we have recently ... see more

Myong-Hee Sung

Mathematical modeling of signaling and gene regulatory networks has provided unique insights about systems behaviors for many cell biological problems of medical importance. Quantitative single cell monitoring has a crucial role in advancing systems model... see more

Jibran A. Wali, Seth L. Masters and Helen E. Thomas

Pancreatic beta-cell apoptosis is an important feature of islets in type 2 diabetes. Apoptosis can occur through two major pathways, the extrinsic or death receptor mediated pathway, and the intrinsic or Bcl-2-regulated pathway. Hyperglycaemia, hyperlipid... see more

Isaac A. Rodriguez, Scott A. Sell, Jennifer M. McCool, Gunjan Saxena, Andrew J. Spence and Gary L. Bowlin

Ibtissam Echchgadda, Caleb C. Roth, Cesario Z. Cerna and Gerald J. Wilmink

The gene expression kinetics for human cells exposed to hyperthermic stress are not well characterized. In this study, we identified and characterized the genes that are differentially expressed in human epidermal keratinocyte (HEK) cells exposed to hyper... see more

Amanda L. Gruver-Yates and John A. Cidlowski

First described for their metabolic and immunosuppressive effects, glucocorticoids are widely prescribed in clinical settings of inflammation. However, glucocorticoids are also potent inducers of apoptosis in many cell types and tissues. This review will ... see more

Tetyana Shandala, Chiaoxin Lim, Alexandra Sorvina and Douglas A. Brooks

Phagocytosis involves the internalization of extracellular material by invagination of the plasma membrane to form intracellular vesicles called phagosomes, which have functions that include pathogen degradation. The degradative properties of phagosomes a... see more