pyronecrosis

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noun

A variant of pyroptosis that requires a caspase.

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Meanings

nounpyronecrosis (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA variant of pyroptosis that requires a caspase.

    Pyroptosis and pyronecrosis differ from each other, e.g. by activating factors and the dependence of caspase-1 [ 34 ].

    2008 September 13, Antero Salminen et al., “Amyloid-β oligomers set fire to inflammasomes and induce Alzheimer's pathology”, in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, volume 12, →DOI

Origin

From pyro- + necrosis.

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