Exocytosis vs Apoptosis - What's the difference?
exocytosis | apoptosis |
The secretion of substances through cellular membranes, either to excrete waste products or as a regulatory function
(biology, cytology) A process of programmed cell death by which cells undergo an ordered sequence of events which lead to death of the cell, as occurs during growth and development of the organism, as a part of normal cell aging, or as a response to cellular injury.
* 1972 , John F Kerr et al., (title):
*1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 238:
*:Indeed, so important is apoptosis' that it is gradually becoming clear that almost all therapeutic cancer treatment works only because it induces ' apoptosis by alerting p53 and its colleagues.
* 2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 74:
As nouns the difference between exocytosis and apoptosis
is that exocytosis is the secretion of substances through cellular membranes, either to excrete waste products or as a regulatory function while apoptosis is a process of programmed cell death by which cells undergo an ordered sequence of events which lead to death of the cell, as occurs during growth and development of the organism, as a part of normal cell aging, or as a response to cellular injury.exocytosis
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(wikipedia exocytosis) (exocytoses)apoptosis
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- Apoptosis : a basic biological phenomenon with wide-ranging implications in tissue kinetics.
- Apoptosis is routine in developmental processes such as the removal of webbing between fingers in humans, the loss of tadpole tails in amphibians, and insect metamorphosis.
