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When did the term "membrane blebbing" come about?

Genecks
in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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I like putting a date on certain terms. One that I have recent come across was "membrane blebbing." I get the idea, but I've never really heard the term. I've known of lysis, necrosis, and apoptosis. But then I come across this term called "blebbing."

 

How recent is this term?

Anyone get a rough idea?

 

I'm looking at the sources in Wikipedia, and it seems from a quick look that the term came around in the late 1990s.

I laughed like a drain for 20 minutes when I first heard it in a lecture about apoptosis.

 

The earliest publication I found with "blebbing" in the title was 1966 (STUDY ON MEMBRANE ELEVATION (BLEBBING) IN RABBIT ZYGOTE)

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