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Caspase

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"What is Apoptosis?" The Apoptotic Pathways and the Caspase Cascade

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Caspase Independent Cell Death (CICD)

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Apoptotic Pathways

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Altogen Labs Caspase 3/7 Assays for Apoptosis

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Medical vocabulary: What does Caspase Inhibitors mean

Caspases are a family of protease enzymes playing essential roles in programmed cell death and inflammation. They are named caspases due to their specific cysteine protease activity – a cysteine in its active site nucleophilically attacks and cleaves a target protein only after an aspartic acid residue. As of 2009, there are 11 or 12 confirmed caspases in humans and 10 in mice, carrying out a variety of cellular functions.