cell suicide

American  

[sel soo-uh-sahyd] / ˈsɛl ˈsu əˌsaɪd /

noun

1. Cell Biology. Also cellular suicide. a cell's self-destruction, effected as an essential factor in the maintenance of an organism's health and development. See also programmed cell death.

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Example Sentences

All initiated the same responses in the pathogen cell, suggesting that cell suicide is a general consequence of ergosterol biosynthesis inhibitors.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2024

And the cell suicide that ceramides can trigger, although protective against cancer, may damage healthy tissue in organs such as the heart.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 15, 2023

Cells use a variety of ways to eliminate their rivals, from kicking them out of a tissue to inducing cell suicide or even engulfing them and cannibalizing their components.

From Nature • Oct. 14, 2019

Radiation therapy and many chemotherapies kill cancer cells by generating oxygen radicals, which trigger cell suicide.

From Reuters • Jan. 9, 2013

Rather than ceasing to divide, the cells of blind mole rats reach a point at which they die en masse in a bout of cell suicide that Gorbunova and her co-authors call “concerted cell death”.

From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2012