A form of programmed cell death induced by external or internal signals that trigger the activity of proteolytic caspases, whose actions dismantle a muscle cell and result in its death. A muscle cell is a mature contractile cell, commonly known as a myocyte, that forms one of three kinds of muscle. [ GOC:dph GOC:mtg_apoptosis GOC:tb http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000187 ]
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- apoptotic process
- occurs in some muscle cell
- only in taxon some Metazoa
- in taxon only Metazoa