The term apoptosis is proposed for a hitherto little recognized mechanism of controlled cell deletion, which appears to play a complementary but opposite role to mitosis in the regulation of animal cell populations.
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Apoptosis
/ˌæ.pəˈtoʊ.sɪs/
Synonyms for "apoptosis" (2 found)
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Noun(1 words)
caspase-mediated cell death
Related words (1)
Noun(1 words)
programmed cell death
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2 entriescell deathnecrobiosis
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Indeed, so important is apoptosis that it is gradually becoming clear that almost all therapeutic cancer treatment works only because it induces apoptosis by alerting p53 and its colleagues.
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Apoptosis is routine in developmental processes such as the removal of webbing between fingers in humans, the loss of tadpole tails in amphibians, and insect metamorphosis.
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