Atrophic Factor - Types

Types

  • Apoptosis or Type I cell-death. See Apoptosis
  • Autophagic or Type II cell-death. (Cytoplasmic: characterized by the formation of large vacuoles that eat away organelles in a specific sequence prior to the destruction of the nucleus.)

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