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GO: Biological Process
muscle cell apoptotic process
- Term ID
- GO:0010657
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- muscle cell apoptosis
- Definition
- A form of programmed cell death induced by external or internal signals that trigger the activity of proteolytic caspases, whose actions dismantle a muscle cell and result in its death. A muscle cell is a mature contractile cell, commonly known as a myocyte, that forms one of three kinds of muscle.
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- Ontology
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