cell suicide
Americannoun
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High school biology teaches us that the protein p53 takes charge of this process. p53 ensures repair of damaged DNA, but initiates cell suicide when the damage becomes too severe.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 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
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