#cell physiology
- Allobiosis — A physiological state or form of existence of a living organism characterized by adaptation or reaction to an artificially modified, unnatural environment or one completely different from its native one. In experimental ecology, the term describes the structural response of tissues or cellular communities when forced to survive under non-standard biochemical parameters, demonstrating the metabolic plasticity of the system.
- Autoproteolysis — A biochemical process of spontaneous and autonomous cleavage, degradation, or enzymatic digestion of proteins within a cell or organic tissue, executed by the organism's own proteolytic enzymes (proteases, peptidases). This endogenous structural phenomenon occurs in a controlled manner during autophagy and cellular turnover, but can be triggered destructively and uncontrollably in pathological states of ischemia, acute inflammation, or immediately following cell death (post-mortem necrosis).
- Bacteriopexiatic — Serving to fix or retain bacteria; relating to the capacity of certain cells or tissues to capture and immobilize prokaryotic microorganisms in order to neutralize them. Physiologically, bacteriopexiatic properties are specific to macrophages and cells of the reticuloendothelial system (such as Kupffer cells in the liver), representing a first defensive barrier prior to the enzymatic destruction of the pathogen.