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Apoptosis: life through planned cellular death regulating mechanisms, control systems, and relations with thyroid diseases.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Jan 2002
Lumachi Franco, Basso Stefano
Abstract excerpt
Apoptosis is an active biologic process that represents a form of programmed cellular suicide, activated either by genetic factors or by cellular lesions caused by various extracellular traumatic agents. The alterations of its functional mechanisms control cellular homeostasis are involved in the genesis of many illnesses. There are different control systems that can both stimulate and inhibit apoptosis, such as...
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