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FEBS J
April 2021
Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Biomedical Sciences, Dangan, NUI Galway, Ireland.
Apoptosis is a major form of programmed cell death (PCD) that eliminates unnecessary and potentially dangerous cells in all metazoan organisms, thus ensuring tissue homeostasis and many developmental processes. Accordingly, defects in the activation of the apoptotic pathway often pave the way to disease. After several decades of intensive research, the molecular details controlling the apoptosis program have largely been unraveled, as well as the regulatory mechanisms of caspase activation during apoptosis.
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