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Programmed cell death. Apoptosis may be programmed during development. It can also be a cell's response to DNA damage and virus infection.
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Programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
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Programmed cell death is also called apoptosis. (There is no consensus yet on how to pronounce it; some say APE oh TOE sis; some say uh POP tuh sis.)
Why should a cell commit suicide?
There are two different reasons.
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Programmed cell death is an integral part of both plant and metazoan (multicellular animals) tissue development.
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Programmed cell death brought about by signals that trigger the activation of a cascade of "suicide" proteins in the cells destined to die.
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Apoptosis-Programmed cell death
Glutamate-mediated excitotoxic neuronal injury
Cellular proliferation
Regulation of the cellular redox state
Heme synthesis
Steroid synthesis
Heat production (enabling the organism to stay warm).
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elegans development is that seventeen percent of the cells generated during embryogenesis undergo programmed cell death, also called apoptosis. Normal development requires that certain cells die.
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apoptosis - also known as programmed cell death (PCD); an active cellular process ("cell suicide") consisting of a stereotyped set of events including nuclear condensation, chromosome degradation, ...
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Radicals and Oxidative Stress: Environment, Drugs and Food Additives Essays in Biochemistry vol 41: The Ubiquitin-Proteasome System Essays in Biochemistry vol 40: The Nuclear Receptor Superfamily Essays in Biochemistry vol 39: Programmed Cell Death ...
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