Caspases and apoptosis in fish

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Apoptosis has a vital impact on the development and homeostasis of all multicellular organisms. Hence, all metazoan species seem to possess the necessary components of the apoptotic machinery, but in general, their numbers and complexity have increased during evolution. The key apoptotic factors are a cascade of cysteine proteases known as caspases. The fish homologous of almost all the mammalian caspases have als...

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64fe2247-063a-53e9-a722-cb7c21d0ee00

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10.1111/j.1095-8649.2007.01665.x