chapter 1 Lentiviral Biology and Cell Death -- chapter 2 Regulation of Apoptosis -- chapter 3 Approaches Used to Detect Apoptosis -- chapter 4 Consequences of HIV Infection on Thymus Function and T Cell Development -- chapter 5 Deadly Intentions: Apoptosis in the Peripheral Immune System -- chapter 6 Cell Death in HIV Infection: gp120 -- chapter 7 Vpr -- chapter 8 Interference of the Nef Protein of HIV-1 with Pro and Antiapoptotic Pathways of T Cells -- chapter 9 HIV-1 Tat and Apoptotic Death -- chapter 10 HIV Protease (PR) and Cell Death -- chapter 11 Immune Activation -- chapter 12 Impairment of HIV-Specific Immune Effector Cell Function -- chapter 13 Mechanisms of HIV-Infected vs. Uninfected T Cell Killing -- chapter 14 Elevated Apoptosis of CD8+T Lymphocytes during HIV-1 Infection -- chapter 15 Autologous Cell-Mediated Killing -- chapter 16 Molecular Mechanisms of HIV-1 Syncytial Apoptosis -- chapter 17 Nonapoptotic HIV-Induced T Cell Death -- chapter 18 Apoptosis in Organ Culture and Animal Models of HIV Disease -- chapter 19 T Cell Dynamics and the Role of Apoptosis in HIV Infection -- chapter 20 Alteration of the Apoptotic Pathways in the Thymus during HIV Infection -- chapter 21 Correlations between Apoptosis and HIV Disease Progression -- chapter 22 HIV-1 Infection and Cell Death in the Nervous System -- chapter 23 Involvement of Apoptosis in Complications of HIV and Its Treatment -- chapter 24 Apoptosis as a Pathogenic Mechanism of HIV-Associated Opportunistic Infections -- chapter 25 Direct Effects of Anti-HIV Therapeutics on Apoptosis / chapter 26 HIV-1 Reservoirs and Residual Viral Replication during Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy -- chapter 27 Therapeutic Approaches to Modulation of Cell Death (non-HIV) / chapter 28 Immunotherapy of HIV Disease