anoikic
adjEtymology From anoikis + -ic.
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Biology, Cytology, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences Exhibiting anoikis, the form of apoptosis that occurs when a cell comes loose from its anchorage
- Moreover, another process, autophagy — in which the cell digests some of its own components — is observed in anoikic cells.2009 September 2, Eyal Gottlieb, “Cancer: The fat and the furious”, in Nature, volume 461, number 7260, →DOI, pages 44–45: