Cell Death

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
CD
Pronunciation
/sɛl dɛθ/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. We expected the tumor cells to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis.
  2. This hyperacetylation causes cell cycle arrest and cell death in cancer cells but not in normal cells.
  3. The type III cell death was a special type of cell death, which related to apoptosis and necrosis.
  4. The cell death process, or apoptosis, is characteristically impaired in cancer cells.
  5. The histological tissue damage observed was blunted after D-JNKI-1 pretreatment both for necrotic and apoptotic cell death.

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