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The words “cell death” have a wide variety of meanings. For a pathologist, for instance, there is an almost obligatory relationship between cell injury, cell death and necrosis. For him the death of cells is a consequence of a pathogene action (La Via and Hill, 1971). But there are in almost every living organism thousands of cells that die spontaneously by a process which is called with some ambiguity “physiological” or “spontaneous” cell death. This means that cells are dying in healthy subjects under normal conditions without any exposure to noxae, but merely as an expression of cellular turnover or as a result of normal genetic and epigenetic regulations. Our investigations deal with this kind of cell death.
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Pexieder, T. (1975). Introduction. In: Cell death in the morphogenesis and teratogenesis of the heart. Ergebnisse der Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology Revues d’anatomie et de morphologie expérimentale, vol 51/3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66142-6_2
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