Social controls on cell survival and cell death

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Summary

For some mammalian cells, programmed death seems to occur by default unless suppressed by signals from other cells, so dependence on specific survival signals provides a simple way to eliminate misplaced cells, for regulating cell numbers and, perhaps, for selecting the fittest cells.

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review
Published
1992-04-02
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Keywords

Programmed cell death, Survival of the fittest, Cell survival, Cell biology, Cell

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