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Apoptosis and differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes

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We compared some processes characteristic for both apoptosis and terminal differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes. It can be proposed that nonapoptotic programmed cell death takes place during differentiation of keratinocytes. Apoptosis and terminal differentiation of keratinocytes appear to be different events but some similar molecular mechanisms are involved in both processes.

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Translated from Ontogenez, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2005, pp. 85–89.

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Terskikh, V.V., Vasil’ev, A.V. Apoptosis and differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes. Russ J Dev Biol 36, 61–64 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11174-005-0011-0

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