List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Cell death: a new classification separating apoptosis from necrosis; 2 Cell death in embryogenesis; 3 Cell death in metamorphosis; 4 Tissue homeostasis and cell death; 5 Cell senescence and death in plants; 6 The tissue kinetics of cell loss; 7 Cell death and the disease process. The role of calcium; 8 Cell death in vitro; 9 Nucleic acids in cell death; 10 Mechanism(s) of action of nerve growth factor in intact and lethally injured sympathetic nerve cell in neonatal rodents; 11 Glucocorticoid-induced lymphocyte death. 12 The role of the LT system In cell destruction in vitro13 Techniques for demonstrating cell death; Author index; Subject index.