supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30870588);the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups (Grant No. 30821006);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No. NCET-06-0445)
Cell death is typically defined either as apoptosis or necrosis. Because the consequences of apoptosis and necrosis are quite different for an entire organism, the investigation of the cell-death-mode switch has consi...