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Programmed Cell Death: Apoptosis

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Apoptosis or programmed cell death is highly topical for immunologists. How it operates to eliminate unwanted damaged cells but to preserve others is really complex. There is focus on mitochondrial function and on caspase (cathepsin-like) enzymes.

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