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Other authors / contributors: | Macieira-Coelho, Alvaro, 1932-
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ISBN: | 9783540691617 3540691618
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
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Summary: | Cell biologists have recently become aware that the asymmetry of cell division is an important regulatory phenomenon in the fate of a cell. During development, cell diversity originates through asymmetry; in the adult organism asymmetric divisions regulate the stem cell reservoir and are a source of the drift that contributes to the aging of organisms with renewable cell compartments. Because of the concept of semi-conservative DNA synthesis, it was thought that the distribution of DNA between daughter cells was symmetric. The analysis of the phenomenon in cells during mitosis, however, reveal.
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Other form: | Print version: Asymmetric cell division. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007 9783540691600 354069160X
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