Histolysis is the decay and dissolution of organic tissues or of blood. It is sometimes referred to as histodialysis. In cells, histolysis may be caused by
uracil-DNA degradation.
Origin: New Latin, from
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
(histos) tissue + (lusis) dissolution from to loosen, dissolve.
Histolysis is associated with
metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and different ...
as well as other morphological changes. The loss of organs or blood begins with
cell death
Cell death is the event of a biological cell ceasing to carry out its functions. This may be the result of the natural process of old cells dying and being replaced by new ones, as in programmed cell death, or may result from factors such as di ...
, which can be caused by a number of factors. In frogs, the histolysis of the tail associated with metamorphosis is also associated with a lowering of the
pH of the blood.
Increases in histolysis has been found to correspond with the pupal phase of insect metamorphosis, wherein larval organs break down before the
histogenesis Histogenesis is the formation of different tissues from undifferentiated cells. These cells are constituents of three primary germ layers, the endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm. The science of the microscopic structures of the tissues formed within ...
of the adult tissues occur. The histolysis is associated with an increase in the production of
ATP and a decrease in metabolism.
References
Hematology
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