nurse cell apoptotic process
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0045476
Any apoptotic process in a nurse cell. During late oogenesis, following the transfer of substances from the nurse cells to the oocyte, nurse cell remnants are cleared from the egg chamber by apoptotic process. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11973306 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000026 GOC:mtg_apoptosis ]
Synonyms: nurse cell programmed cell death by apoptosis, programmed cell death of nurse cells by apoptosis, apoptosis of nurse cells
Term info
invertebrate nurse cell apoptosis, nurse cell apoptosis
biological_process
GO:0045476
Term relations
- apoptotic process and part of some oogenesis and occurs in some invertebrate nurse cell