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An example might be talk of “programmed cell death” in neuroscience, which is a process within neural development that could just as accurately be described as “orderly and adaptive cell-death in accordance with evolutionary design.”
Biological Information Godfrey-Smith, Peter 2007
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The pathologist said most of the victims in more than 200 "cell-death inquests" he carried out over a two-year period had not died naturally.
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In a moist atmosphere the penetrating power of heat is great; consequently cell-death occurs at a lower temperature than in a dry atmosphere.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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High cytotoxic effect of RCD with a cell-death rate ~60% was observed only in germ-derived cells (Tera-1), whereas no effect was seen in a somatic, kidney-derived control cell line (HEK293).
BioMed Central - Latest articles Denis Kuzmin 2010
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In cancer cells, this self-destruct mechanism is faulty and lead to breaks in the cell-death cascade of events.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Alcohol has particularly harmful effects on nerve cells, and in the specific case of astrocytes it induces programmed cell-death and an alteration of the actin cytoskeleton.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Following application of the silver nanoparticles to ethanol-exposed cells, the actin cytoskeleton shows marked improvements and cell-death does not occur.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Oligomers of the α-synuclein protein are hypothesized to be the determinants of toxicity and cell-death in Parkinson's disease.
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Oligomers of the α-synuclein protein are hypothesized to be the determinants of toxicity and cell-death in Parkinson's disease.
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Oligomers of the α-synuclein protein are hypothesized to be the determinants of toxicity and cell-death in Parkinson's disease.
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