Author: Daniel Klionsky

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2003-12-15

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1498713270

Starting in the early 1970s, a type of programmed cell death called apoptosis began to receive attention. Over the next three decades, research in this area continued at an accelerated rate. In the early 1990s, a second type of programmed cell death, autophagy, came into focus. Autophagy has been studied in mammalian cells for many years. The recen