Internucleosomal cleavage of DNA is characteristic of
Apoptosis ) is a process of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (morphology) and death. These changes include blebbing, cell shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin condensation, chromosomal DNA fragmentation, and global mRNA decay. In H&E-stained tissue sections, the nuclei of apoptotic cells show various stages of chromatin condensation and aggregation and, ultimately, karyorrhexis (Fig. 1-21); at the molecular level this is reflected in fragmentation of DNA into nucleosome-sized pieces. Ref Robbins 9/e 18
Reversible cell injury
Irreversible cell injury
Necrosis
Apoptosis
General pathology