58). It has been proposed that the suppression of Fas-mediated death of hepatocytes that express HCV proteins protects these cells from immune-cell-mediated apoptosis and may contribute to the ...

In multicellular organisms, the total number of cells is a balance between the cell-generating effects of mitosis and cell death that is induced through apoptosis. A disruption of this delicate ...

Every day, billions of our cells die and new, healthy ones take their place. In a healthy gut lining, as in most tissues, a type of cell death called apoptosis is thought to mediate this process ...

In Ming-Chiu Fung’s immunology lab, Hogan had been investigating how disturbances in the cytoskeletons of cells might contribute to the fragmentation of mitochondria during apoptosis, the most ...

The research found that two byproducts of fiber digestion by gut bacteria may ... and multiplication of cells, as well as genes controlling programmed cell death, or apoptosis.