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Entosis is a form of cell death that involves the cell dying as a result of becoming engulfed by a neighboring cell. The process was discovered by Overholtzer, et al. as reported in Cell.[1]
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- ^ Overholtzer, Michael; Arnaud A. Mailleux, Ghassan Mouneimne, Guillaume Normand, Stuart J. Schnitt, Randall W. King, Edmund S. Cibas, Joan S. Brugge (30 November 2007). "A Nonapoptotic Cell Death Process, Entosis, that Occurs by Cell-in-Cell Invasion". Cell 131 (5): 966–979. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2007.10.040.
