Necrosis versus Apoptosis

[Vincenzo Nardi-Dei]

Gold wrote:

>Hey, has anyone out there read "Ideas in Pathology, Programmed Cell Death:
>Necrosis versus Apoptosis" in Modern Pathology, Volume 7, pages 605-609
>(1994).
>
>The gist of the article is that the term "apoptosis" adds to the confusion
>of the
>study of cell death, rather than clarifying it.  And that the distinction
>between necrosis and apoptosis lacks clarity and is "confusing and ...
>unintelligible".
>
>Comments, netters...

So how do they propose to define programmed cell death?

Vincenzo Nard-Dei

Institute for Chemical Research
Kyoto University