Flow Cytometry Reveals the Nature of Oncotic Cells.
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SUBMITTER: Vossenkamper A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6769836 | biostudies-other | 2019 Sep
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Flow Cytometry Reveals the Nature of Oncotic Cells.
Vossenkamper Anna A Warnes Gary G
International journal of molecular sciences 20190906 18
The term necrosis is commonly applied to cells that have died via a non-specific pathway or mechanism but strictly is the description of the degradation processes involved once the plasma membrane of the cell has lost integrity. The signalling pathways potentially involved in accidental cell death (ACD) or oncosis are under-studied. In this study, the flow cytometric analysis of the intracellular antigens involved in regulated cell death (RCD) revealed the phenotypic nature of cells undergoing o ...[more]
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