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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 3, 779-787 (October 2002) | doi:10.1038/nrm931
How death shapes life during development
Eric H. Baehrecke1 About the author
Abstract
The formation of an adult animal from a fertilized embryo involves the production and death of cells. Surprisingly, many cells are produced during development with an ultimate fate of death, and defects in programmed cell death can result in developmental abnormalities. Recent studies indicate that cells can die by many different mechanisms, and these differences have implications for proper animal development and disorders such as cancer and autoimmunity.
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Author affiliations
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Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
Email: baehreck@umbi.umd.edu
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