Apoptosis and differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes

We compared some processes characteristic for both apoptosis and terminal differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes. It can be proposed that nonapoptotic programmed cell death takes place during differentiation of keratinocytes. Apoptosis and terminal differentiation of keratinocytes appear to be different events but some similar molecular mechanisms are involved in both processes.__________Translated from Ontogenez, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2005, pp. 85–89.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Terskikh, Vasilev.