How to Use apoptosis in a Sentence

apoptosis

noun
  • As a result, those cells die in a process known as apoptosis.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 7 May 2021
  • Within hours of death, cells begin to break down in a process called apoptosis.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2010
  • This causes fat cells to freeze, breaking cell walls and causing cell death (apoptosis).
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The linker cell–type death is in some sense almost like a mirror image of apoptosis.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
  • At the same time, the cell begins a preprogrammed self-destruct sequence, a process known as apoptosis.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Every single minute, cells that are not functioning right are programmed for death through a process called apoptosis.
    — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Both try to stop a cell's emergency safety switch, a self-destruct mechanism known as apoptosis.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 June 2021
  • If enough damage builds up, the cell surrenders and undergoes programmed cell death, or apoptosis.
    — Celia Ford, WIRED, 17 July 2023
  • The second notable change occurs in another process, apoptosis.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • These instructions for cell death, called apoptosis, start well before freezing temperatures are reached.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Genes involved in apoptosis may have come from former symbiotic partners that have since departed.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In the average adult, apoptosis triggers the death of 50 to 70 billion cells within a single day.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • These impostors could then be used to dupe overactive immune cells into believing that apoptosis rather than necrosis was taking place.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Other conditions can benefit from apoptosis research as well.
    — Zoie Magri, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
  • When a cell dies via apoptosis, a natural process the body uses to remove damaged cells, PS becomes exposed to the outside of that cell.
    — Sathy Balu-Iyer, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2021
  • This protein regulates apoptosis, which is a major factor in viral pathogenicity.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • When a senescent cell resists apoptosis, the damage is allowed to continue, a festering wound embedded deep in our tissues.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Unlike necrosis, the leftovers of apoptosis are mostly tolerated by the immune system.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • In one study in rats, swimming was shown to stimulate brain pathways that suppress inflammation in the hippocampus and inhibit apoptosis, or cell death.
    — Seena Mathew, Quartz, 31 July 2021
  • Some of the affected pathways seemed intuitive, inhibiting cell processes like division and apoptosis, or cell death.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 27 June 2020
  • Without ever touching your skin, the laser energy causes apoptosis (cell death) in the fat cells while an automatic jet cooling system helps keep your skin from overheating.
    — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 13 Mar. 2023
  • If the damage is sufficiently critical, the cell will respond by committing an orderly sort of suicide called apoptosis, which keeps it from causing any further problems.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 July 2018
  • The tools for apoptosis, molecular biologists have found, are curiously widespread.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • These proteins can both induce or prevent apoptosis, and the team suspected that the balance between these proteins was disrupted in the overactive myofibroblasts.
    — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 13 Dec. 2017
  • In Orf3a, the protein that oversees apoptosis, or cell death, the researchers note the S261L mutation.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Last year, geneticists working on a sponge genome identified more than a thousand genes that appear to make up the toolkit required for the jump, including genes for apoptosis, cell signaling, and telling self from other.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2011
  • There is evidence that nicotine inhibits apoptosis — the process by which cells self-destruct, which is an important guard against tumour formation — in cancer cells by binding to cholinergic receptors.
    — Anthony King, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
  • Ashwagandha extracts have demonstrated anti-tumor properties by inhibiting cell growth and inducing apoptosis (cell death) in cancer cells.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2023
  • This futuristic device utilizes a 1064 nm laser that is proven to induce apoptosis (which is essentially the death of unwanted cells) in adipose tissue, also known as body fat.
    — Meggen Harris, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • Notch signaling has several important functions, including cell growth, cell differentiation, and apoptosis (cell destruction).
    — Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 7 July 2024

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