Cell death in unusual but informative and beautiful model organisms.
Cancer depends on cell death. It can emerge when cell death is deficient, and it could be treated through cancer-cell-specific induction of cell death. However, our understanding of cell death is still incomplete. While a few classical animal models have helped greatly in this respect, more may be learnt from non-classical model organisms from all eukaryotic kingdoms. We describe in this volume some of these non-classical models of cell death, which are at least potentially scientifically informative and often aesthetically pleasing.
Golstein
Pierre
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D000818:Animals; D016923:Cell Death / Q000502:physiology*; D023421:Models, Animal