xmu博士课程讲义Apopstatis,8.11.20.pptVIP

The Regulation of Apoptosis: A Question of Life or Death Zhang Si Qing Cancer Biology Laboratory Dept. of Biomedical Sciences School of Life Sciences Xiamen University “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” Programmed cell death, called apoptosis, is a normal part of development. In the nematode C. elegans, exactly 131 cells die according to the normal developmental pattern. In humans, as many as 1011 cells die in each adult each day and are replaced by other cells.(Indeed, the mass of cells we lose each year through normal cell death is close to our entire body weight!). We generated