A brief history of apoptosis: From ancient to modern times

Onkologie

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 702-706

  Diamantis, Aristidis ^a   Magiorkinis, Emmanouil ^a   Sakorafas, George H ^b   Androutsos, George ^c  

^a ATHENS NAVAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell death; History of medicine; Necrosis; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIQUITY; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MODERN TIMES; MORPHOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 57449096538     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000165071     Document Type: Review

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