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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 12.
Published in final edited form as: Apoptosis. 2008 Jan;13(1):1–9. doi: 10.1007/s10495-007-0154-9

Figure 4. Cell death continuum.

Figure 4

Mechanistic interactions between regulators of apoptosis autophagy and necrosis control whether a cell lives or dies and determine the particular facets of the death mechanism with characteristics of apoptosis, necrosis etc. that occur in the dying cells. Perturbation of these interactions may alter the amount and characteristics of cell death.