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Apoptosis, autophagy, and necrosis
Two and a half millennia ago Hippocrates used the word “apoptosis” to describe the gangrene resulting from treatment of fractures with bandages. Interestingly, he was describing a pathological form of tissue (cell) death. In 1972 Kerr reused the word “apoptosis”…