Apoptosis Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology
Subtitle: Approaches to Measurement and Quantification (Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: June 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780896038905
Subjects: Medical equipment & techniques; Pharmacology; Cytology; Molecular Pharmacology; Science; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Toxicology; Medical / Pharmacology; Life Sciences - Cytology
First sentence: The term "apoptosis" (introduced by Kerr, Wyllie, and Currie in a seminal paper in 1972; [1]) is now widely accepted as a fundamental mechanism of cell death that contributes to the pathogenesis of disease or removal of cells in the adult organism.