Cell biology: Dying to hold you

被引:5
作者
Doukoumetzidis, Kimon [1 ]
Hengartner, Michael O. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Zurich, Inst Mol Biol, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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D O I
10.1038/451530a
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 [理学]; 0710 [生物学]; 09 [农学];
摘要
Certain cells bind so tightly to each other that, on occasion, one cell ends up inside another, usually with fatal consequences for the ingested cell. This involuntary cell death might help protect us from cancer.
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页码:530 / 531
页数:2
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