Necrobiology

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Necrobiology is the study of cell death.[1]

The word is derived from the Greek νεκρό meaning "death", βìο meaning "life", and λόγος meaning "the study of".

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  1. ^ "The term cell necrobiology is introduced to comprise the life processes associated with morphological, biochemical, and molecular changes which predispose, precede, and accompany cell death, as well as the consequences and tissue response to cell death." Cytometry in cell necrobiology: analysis of apoptosis and accidental cell death (necrosis). Darzynkiewicz Z, Juan G, Li X, Gorczyca W, Murakami T, Traganos F. Cytometry. 1997 Jan 1;27(1):1-20.

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