apoptosis

英语

细胞凋亡中的连续事件

词源

来自古希腊语 ἀπόπτωσις (apóptōsis, “脱落”)，来自ἀπό (apó, “远离”) + πτῶσις (ptôsis, “脱落”)。

发音

• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˌapɒpˈtəʊsɪs/

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• (美国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˌæ.pəˈtoʊ.sɪs/, /ˌæpəpˈtoʊsəs/
• 韵部：-əʊsɪs

名词

apoptosis (可数 和 不可数，复数 apoptoses)

1. (生物学，细胞学) 细胞凋亡（自20世纪）
   • 1972, J. F. R. Kerr, A. H. Wyllie, A. R. Currie, “Apoptosis: A Basic Biological Phenomenon with Wide-ranging Implications in Tissue Kinetics”, 出自 British journal of cancer‎^[1], 卷 26, →DOI:

     The term apoptosis is proposed for a hitherto little recognized mechanism of controlled cell deletion, which appears to play a complementary but opposite role to mitosis in the regulation of animal cell populations.

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   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 238:

     Indeed, so important is apoptosis that it is gradually becoming clear that almost all therapeutic cancer treatment works only because it induces apoptosis by alerting p53 and its colleagues.

   • 2011, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2011, p. 74:

     Apoptosis is routine in developmental processes such as the removal of webbing between fingers in humans, the loss of tadpole tails in amphibians, and insect metamorphosis.

上位词

• programmed cell death

同类别词汇

• autophagy

衍生词

• apoptotic
• apoptotically
• necroapoptosis
• neuroapoptosis

西班牙语

名词

apoptosis f (复数 apoptosis)

1. (细胞学) 细胞凋亡

延伸阅读

• “apoptosis”, Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición [西班牙皇家学院字典，第二十三版], 西班牙皇家学院, 2014