Asymmetric cell division /

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Imprint:Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 247 p.) : ill. (some col.)
Language:English
Series:Progress in molecular and subcellular biology, 0079-6484 ; 45
Progress in molecular and subcellular biology ; 45.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8882068
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Other authors / contributors:Macieira-Coelho, Alvaro, 1932-
ISBN:9783540691617
3540691618
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Asymmetric cell division. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007 9783540691600 354069160X