Talk:Programmed cell death
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July 2004: "Programmed cell death" had been, until today, redirected to "Apoptosis". But for some time now, it became more and more necessary to have a separate article on PCD. First, because, PCD and apoptosis are not synonimous (as explained in the new article on PCD). One of the founding figures in the field, Richard Lockshin, has pointed this out repeatedly (see, for instance, Lockshin and Zakeri: "Programmed cell death and apoptosis: origins of the theory", Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, cited in the article), as well as other authors and researchers (see both Schwarz et al.and Bursh et al., as referenced in the article).
Another reason for splitting the apoptosis article is that it was getting too big, at the same time that it was encompassing concepts that did not properly belong there, such as plant PCD. -- jaimeglz
April 2006: I totally agree. I am researching on PCD besides caspase-dependent apoptosis and i am grateful for the separation of apoptosis from PCD. PCD is more than apoptosis and there are diverse regulated pathways for a cell to die ;-). -- lt
