The Origin of Programmed Cell Death
- 31 May 1996
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 272 (5266) , 1278-1279
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.272.5266.1278
Abstract
Cells from multicellular organisms self-destruct when they are no longer needed. Ameisen describes how such programmed cell death has now been found in lower organisms and what this tells us about evolution of the process of cell death.Keywords
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