apoptosis

id: GO:0006915
name: apoptosis
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A form of programmed cell death that begins when a cell receives internal or external signals that trigger the activity of proteolytic caspases, proceeds through a series of characteristic stages typically including rounding-up of the cell, retraction of pseudopodes, reduction of cellular volume (pyknosis), chromatin condensation, nuclear fragmentation (karyorrhexis), and plasma membrane blebbing (but maintenance of its integrity until the final stages of the process), and ends with the death of the cell.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0001552ovarian follicle atresia
GO:0006925inflammatory cell apoptosis
GO:0006926virus-infected cell apoptosis
GO:0006927transformed cell apoptosis
GO:0010657muscle cell apoptosis
GO:0033028myeloid cell apoptosis
GO:0034349glial cell apoptosis
GO:0043276anoikis
GO:0044346fibroblast apoptosis
GO:0045476nurse cell apoptosis
GO:0051402neuron apoptosis
GO:0060561apoptosis involved in morphogenesis
GO:0061364apoptosis involved in luteolysis
GO:0070059apoptosis in response to endoplasmic reticulum stress
GO:0071839apoptosis in bone marrow
GO:0071887leukocyte apoptosis
GO:0072577endothelial cell apoptosis
GO:0097050type B pancreatic cell apoptosis
GO:0097152mesenchymal cell apoptosis

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0012501programmed cell death