Transmembrane signaling is one of the most significant cell biological events in the life and death of cells in general and lymphocytes in particular. This book covers various aspects of the signaling events, and in some cases tries to unify our concepts and help understand the signals that govern the life and death of our cells.

Writing or editing a book on a very topical field of science is always a great challenge, since by the time the book is published some of the newest and latest findings might be obsolete compared with results reported in the most current issues of various high-level journals. Nevertheless, stimulating good books describe complicated systems and int- relationships and provide a broad spectrum of material for talented researchers who may find new inspiration from a joint presentation of correlated data. Of course, an editor cannot rank his own book. However, in this case, the contrib- ing...