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apoptosis

Bob xyzbbruner at uclink4.berkeley.edu
Tue Dec 9 22:46:23 EST 2003


On 9 Dec 2003 23:17:55 -0000, zy2012 at columbia.edu wrote:

>
>Hi Everyone
>I have the following question for long time. I hope I can get 
>answer from you. Thank you in advance.
>Any drug can cause apoptosis as long as the concentration of the 
>drug is enough high to injure the cell. 

?? I'm not sure that is true. Apoptosis is not merely death, but a
specific style of death.


>However, some drugs can 
>truly induce apoptosis. This is a traditional concept of apoptosis. 
>So, how do we identify a drug which can induce traditional 
>apoptosis.

I think we need to resolve the first point before addressing this one.

bob





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