parthanatos

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parthanatos

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Blend of PARP + Thanatos (“Greek personification of death”).

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uncountable A form of apoptosis associated with PARP. Our results suggest that excessive activation of PARP-1 leads to an intrinsic cell death program, which we designate as parthanatos to distinguish from necrosis and apoptosis.

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@misc{parthanatos_2026,
  title = {parthanatos},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/parthanatos},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}