Document 0320 DOCN M9550320 TI Death from inside out: an overview. DT 9505 AU Wyllie AH; Department of Pathology, University Medical School, Edinburgh,; U.K. SO Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1994 Aug 30;345(1313):237-41. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/95148691 AB Although a type of cell death strategically suited to participating in developmental processes has been well known for nearly thirty years, it is only in the recent past that the extraordinary ubiquity of such death has been appreciated. Apoptosis, a term first employed to describe such death defined in structural terms, is associated with a stereotyped set of effector processes, and is driven by genes most of which are familiar as oncogenes or oncosuppressor genes. Dysregulation of apoptosis leads to diseases of enormous social importance such as cancer and AIDS. DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Animal Apoptosis/GENETICS *Cell Death Human Neoplasms JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW REVIEW, TUTORIAL SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).