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Physics in living matter: proceedings of the Gwatt workshop, Switzerland, October 16-18, 1986
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ISBN: 354018192X 038718192X 3540478035 Year: 1987 Publisher: Berlin Springer

Progress in molecular and subcellular biology.
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ISSN: 00796484 ISBN: 9783540691617 9783540691600 354069160X 3642088651 3540691618 Volume: 45 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Springer,

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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, revealed the asymmetry in the distribution of the genetic material that creates the drift contributing to aging of mammals. On the other hand, cancer cells can originate from a deregulation of asymmetry during mitosis in particular during stem cell expansion. The book describes the phenomenon in different organisms from plants to animals and addresses its implications for the development of the organism, cell differentiation, human aging and the biology of cancers.

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