Mitochondria and Cell Death. Edited by GC Brown, DG Nicholls, CE Cooper. Published for the Biochemical Society by Portland Press, London, UK: 1999, Pp. 225, ISBN: 1 85578 1255. £65.00.

Mitochondria, the powerhouses of a cell, have been attracting a lot of attention in the last few years, because evidence has proven that mitochondria play a key role in apoptotic cell death in mammals, by releasing apoptogenic factors during apoptosis, which are otherwise stored safely inside. Apoptosis is also one of the hottest topics in the medical field being filed from a therapeutic application point of view.

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