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Older men's sperm is also less likely to undergo a self-destruct mechanism called apoptosis, which is meant to get rid of damaged cells.— Home | Mail Online
To determine if ER stress-induced apoptosis was also activated in— PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
This damage comes from apoptosis, which is a different form of cell death, and can result in large holes in brain tissue that cause lasting neurological effects.— Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
St. Jude investigators have discovered a dance of proteins that protects certain cells from undergoing apoptosis, also known as programmed cell death.
Although ceramide is an important mediator of apoptosis, the neutral SMase that is activated under heat stress has not been identified.— Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue

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