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Quote by User: Content Apoptosis Content A type of cell death in which a series of molecular steps in a cell leads to its death This is body s normal way of getting rid of unneeded or abnormal cells The process of programmed cell death may be blocked in cancer cells Also called apoptosis Content The first genetic evidence for programmed cell death apotosis was found in nematode C elegans with ced C elegans death mutations These mutations decreased normal cell death that occurs during C elegans development C elegans adult hemaphrodites contain 959 somatic cells together with hundreds of germ cells during development to adult stage 131 cells die are degraded Thus almost 1 8 of all cells that are made during development are deliberately lost Many of genes defined in ced pathway have been shown to function during apotosis in mammalian cells Content Normal benign process of cell suicide in which cell shrinks dissolves its contents activates phagocytosis by neighboring cells
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