Ferroptosis: process and function

Y Xie, W Hou, X Song, Y Yu1, J Huang, X Sun, R Kang and D Tang; Cell Death and Differentiation (2016) 23, 369–379; doi:10.1038/cdd.2015.158; published online 22 January 2016

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Ferroptosis is a recently recognized form of regulated cell death. It is characterized morphologically by the presence of smaller than normal mitochondria with condensed mitochondrial membrane densities, reduction or vanishing of mitochondria crista, and outer mitochondrial membrane rupture.

 Ferroptosis: process and function