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Caspases or cysteine-aspartic proteases or cysteine-dependent aspartate-directed proteases are a family of cysteine proteases that play essential roles in apoptosis (programmed cell death) necrosis and inflammation.Caspases are essential in cells for apoptosis or programmed cell death in development and most other stages of adult life and have been termed executioner proteins for their roles in the cell.
