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Apoptosis: Cell death defined by caspase activation
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  • Published: 07 June 1999

Apoptosis: Cell death defined by caspase activation

  • Afshin Samali1,
  • Boris Zhivotovsky1,
  • Dean Jones2,
  • Shigekazu Nagata3 &
  • …
  • Sten Orrenius1 

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  1. Division of Toxicology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, S-171 77, Sweden

    Afshin Samali, Boris Zhivotovsky & Sten Orrenius

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  3. Department of Genetics, Osaka University Medical School, 2-2 Yamada-oka/Suite, Osaka, 565, Japan

    Shigekazu Nagata

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Samali, A., Zhivotovsky, B., Jones, D. et al. Apoptosis: Cell death defined by caspase activation. Cell Death Differ 6, 495–496 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.cdd.4400520

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