Tutorials in Cell Biology and Anatomy

 

ESSAY

How is cell number controlled in an organism, and why is this important?

 

REFERENCES

1.       Cell 1997, Volume 88, page 347

2.       Science 1995, 267, 1456

3.       Nurse P (1997) Regulation of the eukaryotic cell cycle. European Journal of Cancer, 33, 1002-4

4. Mitcheson, TJ and Salmon ED (2001). Mitosis: a history of cell division. Nature cell biology, 3, 17-21 http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/ncb/journal/v3/n1/full/ncb0101_E17.html

5. Neural stem cells and regulation of cell number. Progress in neurobiology (2002), 66, 1-18 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0R-44J6BD4-1&_user=126524&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2002&_alid=60300900&_rdoc=1&_fmt=full&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=4869&_sort=d&_acct=C000010360&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=126524&md5=3c5ca86a452f154414260f155c27efc3

 

WEB RESOURCES

Nature focus on cell division: http://www.nature.com/ncb/celldivision/

Nature focus on apoptosis: http://www.nature.com/ncb/focus/apoptosis/

Nature milestones in cell division: http://www.nature.com/celldivision/

Mitosis world at: http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/salmon/lab/mitosis/mitosis.html

Cell cycle on the web: http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/ncb/journal/v3/n1/full/ncb0101_e16.html

Nobel Prize 2001: http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/2001/index.html

 

 

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17.x.2004