Induction Of Programmed Cell Death Pathway Bioinformatics
Programmed cell death is a process that can either be regulatory or as a result of an external stress on a system of the body. There are two forms of programmed cell death: apoptosis and autophagy. Both forms undergo multiple cascades that lead to the death of a cell, and they both must receive some intrinsic or extrinsic signal to initiate the process. In apoptosis, DNA lesions induce the intrinsic pathway, while several factors including TNF-alpha and the Fas ligand located on T cells are extrinsic factors that initiate the pathway of cellular fragmentation and blebbing into apoptotic bodies. In the case of autophagy, the kinase mTOR is an important component, for when it is not activated it promotes the degradation of damaged cellular organelles. The induction of programmed cell death is currently being studied as a treatment for several diseases including cancer, and recent publications show cannabinoids to be factors that induce cell death in cancerous cells, while leaving normal cells alone.
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