A gene family is defined as a group of genes that encode related or identical products as a result of gene-duplication events.

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 10496

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 10497

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Necrosis

occurs when cells are subjected to injury or excessive stresses, such as heat, absence of oxygen, or infection

by pathogens & marked by swelling and bursting of cells with release of their contents.

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 10498

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Necroptosis

A type of necrosis triggered by extracellular hormones that causes inflammation

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 10499

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Anoikis 

Excess cells may also be extruded from epithelial layers, by a mechanically regulated process that can cause detachment and the loss of trophic survival signals

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 10500

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Genes involved in controlling cell death encode proteins: 1. Killer or initiation proteins 

1. Killer or initiation proteins 

2. Destruction proteins 

3. Engulfment proteins

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 10501

#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Engulfment involves the assembly of a halo of actin in the engulfing cell around the dying cell, triggered by activation of Rac.