Pyronecrosis |
pyroptosome |
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The name pyroptosis alludes to the observation that IL1-beta released by the cells induce fever.
The term pyroptosis pertains to a kind of cell death, called also inflammatory cell death or pro-inflammatory programmed cell death, which is characterized by inflammatory reactions (Cookson and Brennan, 2001) and is sometimes being referred to also as lytic cell death. Another characteristic feature is that this kind of cell death is accompanied by, and requires, the activation of Caspase-1 (Monack et al, 2001), which processes IL1 and IL18
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