apoptosis
pronunciation
How to pronounce apoptosis in British English:
UK [ˌæpə'təʊsɪs]
How to pronounce apoptosis in American English:
US [ˌæpə'toʊsɪs]
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- 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
Word Origin
Example
- 1. Cell death , called apoptosis , is important for controlling the number of cells in the body .
- 2. One early hint , she reported , is that genes involved in apoptosis , or programmed cell death , seem to be upregulated in these cells .
- 3. Similar proteins are known to flag cells in the lining of the midgut of insects as being damaged , triggering a process of cell death called apoptosis .
- 4. The ones who were deprived of antioxidants had smaller tumors , and 20 percent of the tumor cells were undergoing a type of cell death called apoptosis , which is fueled by free radicals .
- 5. " People have speculated that cells die by apoptosis " -- a scientific term for cell suicide -- " if their dna is damaged , " nishimura said .