cardiac muscle cell apoptosis

id: GO:0010659
name: cardiac muscle cell apoptosis
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A form of programmed cell death induced by external or internal signals that trigger the activity of proteolytic caspases, whose actions dismantle a cardiac muscle cell and result in its death. Cardiac muscle cells are striated muscle cells that are responsible for heart contraction.

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