title: Programmed cell death and apoptosis: origins of the theory.
abstract: Interest in the study of apoptosis grew with the recognition that it is a highly regulated process. Such a change in attitude allowed the intellectual and technical breakthroughs that led to the explosive development of this subject.
authors: Richard A. Lockshin is in the Department of Biological Sciences, Saint John's University, 8,000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, New York 11439, USA. Lockshin@stjohns.edu
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authors: Zakeri
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008675:Metamorphosis, Biological; D009024:Morphogenesis