apoptotic
- a word derived from apoptosis.
Example Sentences
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In prior studies, the researchers demonstrated the efficacy of alpha-santalol in suppressing growth and inducing apoptotic cell death in cultured human prostate cancer cells.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
Subsequent research5 confirmed that apoptotic cell death is anti-inflammatory, leading to proposals that the injection of apoptotic cells might be used to control inflammatory disease.
From Nature ● Mar. 17, 2020
“They figured out which apoptotic pathways are involved,” Hinz says.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 13, 2017
“There are many disorders in which there is too little apoptotic death,” Dr. Horvitz said, “and in those cases it is activating apoptosis that could increase longevity.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2017
Exposure of phosphatidylserine on the surface of apoptotic lymphocytes triggers specific recognition and removal by macrophages.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 31, 2015
