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Definition of Programmed cell death
1. Noun. A type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Programmed Cell Death
Literary usage of Programmed cell death
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rice Genetics IV by Gurdev S. Khush, D. S. Brar, Bill Hardy (2001)
"Our knowledge of programmed cell death in plants lags behind that of animal ...
programmed cell death is thought to occur during the autolysis of xylem ..."
2. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"Prevention 20. of programmed cell death of sympathetic neurons by the bcl-2
proto-oncogene. Science 258:302-304 (1992). 12. Beaver JP, Waring P. Lack of ..."
3. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"Surprisingly, b- galactosidase activity was also detected in several tissues
undergoing programmed cell death. This led us to examine Fos-LacZ expression in ..."
4. Treating Infectious Diseases in a Microbial World: Report of Two Workshops by National Research Council (2006)
"Bacteria, like eukaryotes, may have mechanisms of programmed cell death. If so,
the genetic regulatory programs and the biochemical processes associated ..."
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