Being a kind of automatic arid gene-controlled cell death, cell apoptosis involves complicated regulatory mechanism and stimulates no inflammation, which is essentially different from necrosis.

• 摘要细胞凋亡是由基因控制的细胞自主的有序的死亡，包含了复杂的调控机制，与细胞坏死有着本质区别，不引起炎症刺激。