Both the apoptotic suicide pathway and phagocytosis are required for a programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans

Background Programmed cell deaths in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans are generally considered suicides. Dying cells are engulfed by neighboring cells in a process of phagocytosis. To better understand the interaction between the engulfment and death processes, we analyzed B.al/rapaav cell death...

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Main Authors: Johnsen, Holly L., Horvitz, Howard Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103348
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9840-4112
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9964-9613