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CELL DIVISION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells
Synonyms:
cell division; cellular division
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("cell division" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cell division"):
amitosis (the direct method of cell division characterized by simple division of the nucleus without formation of chromosomes)
cleavage; segmentation ((embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum)
meiosis; miosis; reduction division ((genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants))
mitosis (cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes)
Context examples:
Importantly, they divide and grow without causing cancer, which tends to be a risk with rapid cell division.
(Newly discovered cells restore liver damage in mice without cancer risk, NIH)
In a population of cells, the ratio of the number of cells undergoing mitosis (cell division) to the number of cells not undergoing mitosis.
(Mitotic index, NCI Dictionary)
Neuregulins are involved in the normal development of mammary gland, are secreted by breast cancer cells, and can alternatively promote or inhibit breast cancer cell division.
(Neuregulin, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes serine/threonine-protein kinase Nek9 protein, plays a role in the modulation of protein phosphorylation, mitosis and cell division.
(NEK9 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Although used interchangeably with cell division, strictly speaking the term mitosis refers to nuclear division; cytokinesis refers to division of the cytoplasm.
(Nuclear Division, NCI Thesaurus)
Oncostatin-M specific receptor subunit beta (979 aa, 111 kD) is a cell division process protein that is encoded by the human OSMR gene and has roles in cell proliferation and signal transduction.
(Oncostatin-M Specific Receptor Subunit Beta, NCI Thesaurus)
It blocks cell growth by stopping cell division.
(Oncovin, NCI Dictionary)
This gene is involved in protein phosphorylation and cell division.
(NEK9 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
It blocks cell growth by stopping cell division and may cause cancer cells to die.
(Navelbine, NCI Dictionary)
One of the central features of mitotic cell division is the formation of the spindle that segregates chromosomes into each daughter cell.
(Mitotic Spindle Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
