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    In cell biology, the spindle apparatus is the cytoskeletal structure of eukaryotic cells that forms during cell division to separate sister chromatids...
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  • flagella and cilia and the organization of the mitotic and meiotic spindle apparatus, which separate the chromosomes during cell division. The MTOC is...
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  • hard wood was used to make spindles Spindle apparatus or mitotic spindle, a cellular structure in cell biology Muscle spindle, stretch receptors within...
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    gather at opposite poles and begin to form the spindle apparatus at locations called foci. The mitotic spindle is of great importance in the process of mitosis...
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    A spindle is a straight spike, usually made from wood, used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn. It is often weighted...
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    of nuclear division in mitosis and meiosis. During cytokinesis the spindle apparatus partitions and transports duplicated chromatids into the cytoplasm...
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    in opposite directions and attach to opposite poles of the mitotic spindle apparatus. Following the transition from metaphase to anaphase, the sister chromatids...
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  • fibroid polyp Pigmented spindle cell nevus Spindle cell carcinoma Spindle cell lipoma Spindle cell sarcoma Spindle apparatus (part of a cell) This disambiguation...
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    the initial phase when spindle fibers appear that function to move the chromosomes toward opposite poles. This spindle apparatus consists of microtubules...
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    eccentric spindles of "pleuromitosis", in which mitotic apparatus has bilateral symmetry. Finally, a third criterion is the location of the central spindle in...
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    the spindle apparatus growing from the centrosome to attach to the kinetochores on the sister chromatids. Stable attachment of the spindle apparatus to...
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    may fail to 'notice' that a chromosome pair is not lined with the spindle apparatus. In such a case, most chromosomes would separate normally (with one...
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    division, the homologs are segregated to separate daughter cells by the spindle apparatus. The cells then proceed to a second division without an intervening...
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    binary fission in prokaryotes takes place without the formation of a spindle apparatus on the cell. Before binary fission, DNA in the bacterium is tightly...
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    arrested in the metaphase and will so remain until fertilization. The spindle apparatus of the second meiotic division appears at the time of ovulation. If...
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    physical contact with spindle apparatus through astral microtubules. Tricellular junctions exert a pulling force on the spindle apparatus and serve as a geometrical...
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    absolutely required for correct positioning and orientation of the mitotic spindle apparatus, and are thus involved in determining the cell division site based...
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    homologous chromosomes (bivalents, or tetrads) are properly aligned to the spindle apparatus. Only then, SAC releases its inhibition of the anaphase promoting...
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    in cells undergoing mitosis. During mitosis, clathrin binds to the spindle apparatus, in complex with two other proteins: TACC3 and ch-TOG/CKAP5. Clathrin...
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  • eukaryotic cells, binary fission takes place without the formation of a spindle apparatus on the cell.[citation needed] Like in mitosis (and unlike in meiosis)...
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  • the cell during anaphase of mitosis or meiosis due to a defective spindle apparatus. Consequently, both daughter cells are aneuploid: one is missing one...
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  • 1884, the rule emphasizes the cell shape as a default mechanism of spindle apparatus orientation. Hertwig's rule predicts cell division orientation, which...
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  • recombination events between homologous chromosomes. meiotic spindle See spindle apparatus. melting The denaturation of a double-stranded nucleic acid...
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  • dynein – also used for other functions) as an extension of the mitotic spindle apparatus. The connection can still be seen, first in the various early-branching...
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    of the spindle apparatus towards the end of telophase, in which sister chromatids are identically separated at the opposite sides of the spindle forming...
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    asbestos fiber and the chromosomes or structural proteins of the spindle apparatus can induce complex abnormalities. The most common abnormality is monosomy...
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    intracellular transport such as axonal transport and in the formation of the spindle apparatus and the separation of the chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis....
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    irregularities in kinetochore proteins or their assembly, a dysfunctional spindle apparatus, or flawed anaphase checkpoint genes. Micronuclei can contribute to...
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  • following the formation of a tripolar (rather than the normal bipolar) spindle apparatus. Heterogonesis allows for chromosomal segregation to occur in a dispermic...
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  • contributing to discovery of the attachment of chromosomes to the mitotic spindle apparatus. Brinkley earned his undergraduate degree in general biology from...
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