Dividing cellular asymmetry: Asymmetric cell division and its implications for stem cells and cancer

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2675-2699

  Neumüller, Ralph A ^a   Knoblich, Juergen A ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Asymmetric cell division; Cell polarity; Neurogenesis; Stem cell; Tumorigenesis

Indexed keywords

DNA; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL SIZE; CENTRIOLE; CENTROSOME; CYTOLOGY; DAUGHTER CELL; DROSOPHILA; INHERITANCE; MITOSIS RATE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NEOPLASM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REVIEW; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; MITOSIS; NEOPLASMS; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 72549092813     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1850809     Document Type: Review

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