“…This applies to apoptosis (Kroemer et al, , 1997b and at least to some cases of necrosis (Ankarcrona et al, 1995;Arora et al, 1997;Nieminen et al, 1995Nieminen et al, , 1996Nieminen et al, , 1997Packer et al, 1996;Pastorino et al, 1993Pastorino et al, , 1994Pastorino et al, , 1996Schinder et al, 1996;Snyder et al, 1992;Trost and Lemasters, 1996). Accordingly, pharmacological inhibition of PT by speci®c drugs acting on mitochondria can interfere with both apoptosis (Marchetti et al, 1996a;Zamzami et al, 1996) and necrosis (Ankarcrona et al, 1995;Arora et al, 1997;Nieminen et al, 1995Nieminen et al, , 1996Nieminen et al, , 1997Packer et al, 1996;Pastorino et al, 1993Pastorino et al, , 1994Pastorino et al, , 1996Schinder et al, 1996;Snyder et al, 1992;Trost and Lemasters, 1996). Similarly, hyperexpression of the Bcl-2 oncoprotein, which functions as an endogenous inhibitor of PT Zamzami et al, 1996), can prevent the induction of apoptosis (Cory, 1995;Reed, 1994;Yang and Korsmeyer, 1996) and, in some instances, that of necrosis (Kane et al, 1993;Martinou et al, 1994;Shimizu et al, 1995Shimizu et al, , 1996a.…”