In this sense, the term autophagic cell death is a misnomer 62. Necrosis is morphologically characterized by a gain in cell volume (oncosis), swelling of organelles, plasma membrane rupture and ...

Types of programmed cell death include anoikis, apoptosis, autophagy, necrosis, necroptosis and pyroptosis. The mechanistic basis for spreading ferroptosis to neighboring cells remains unclear.

A new study reveals some surprising discoveries about healing processes that are potentially triggered by the process of necrosis, or premature cell death. Necrosis can be triggered by illness or ...

While the relationship between glioblastoma and cell death, also called necrosis, has been established, it had remained unclear whether it contributed to cancer growth or was merely a byproduct of ...

Avascular necrosis in sickle cell disease can occur due to the impairment of blood supply to the bones, writes columnist.

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, investigators ...

Review highlights how vitamin D, particularly its active form calcitriol, modulates immune responses, inflammation, and tumor ...

In a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study, the addition of navitoclax to the standard TB treatment significantly increased ...

A new study has identified a potential new therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis that could shorten the length of treatment and ...