Chapter 4 Role of Spindle Asymmetry in Cellular Dynamics

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 278, Issue C, 2009, Pages 149-213

  Barral, Yves ^a   Liakopoulos, Dimitris ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell division; Cell polarity; Centrosomes; Mitotic exit; Spindle asymmetry; Spindle positioning; Spindle pole bodies

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL BUDDING; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTRIOLE; CENTROSOME; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINDLE POLE BODY; STEM CELL; YEAST CELL; ANIMAL; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; MITOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; HUMANS; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 73349107155     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1937-6448(09)78004-9     Document Type: Review

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