pyroptosis

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What does pyroptosis mean?

A form of programmed cell death associated with antimicrobial responses during inflammation.

Where does pyroptosis come from?

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire; fever”) + πτῶσῐς (ptôsĭs, “falling”), by analogy with apoptosis. Equivalent to pyro- + ptosis. Coined by Brad T. Cookson and Molly A. Brennan in a 2001 paper in Trends in Microbiology.

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