Gene tools to study neuronal apoptosis -- Detection of apoptotic or necrotic death in neuronal cells by morphological, biochemical, and molecular analysis -- Detection of cell death in neural tissue and cell culture -- Cultured cerebellar granule neurons as a model of neuronal apoptosis -- Optimization and validation of RT-PCR as a tool to analyze gene expresion during apoptosis -- p53 induction is a marker of neuronal apoptosis -- Apoptosis and ischemia in the central nervous system -- Analyses of apoptosis-associated DNA fragmentation in vivo during neurodegeneration of the peripheral olfactory system in adult mammals -- Both irreversible neuronal death and reversible neuronal stress are associated with increased levels of statin, a marker of cell cycle arrest -- Beta-amyloid-induced neuronal cell death in transgenic mice and alzheimer's disease -- Use of TUNEL to measure retinal ganglion cell apoptosis -- Methods for detection of apoptosis in the CNS -- Techniques for distinguishing apoptosis from necrosis in cerebrocortical and cerebellar neurons -- The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system to study neuronal cell death.