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Apoptosis: Definition, Roles, and Regulation

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

1993

First Page

291

Last Page

299

Abstract

The emergence of molecular biology, with the possibility of cloning genes and introducing them in cells where they are expressed, has challenged the classic concept of cell death. But that concept is still valid when defined as “a state in which cells are totally incapable of any function ... ”.1 That concept has been based mostly on morphological observation.

Keywords

Apoptosis

Comments

In The Cell Cycle. Plenum Press, 1993.

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