Asymmetric Cell Division

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Macieira-Coelho, Alvaro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, 45
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Cancer research.; Cell biology.; Developmental biology.; Life Sciences.; Developmental Biology.; Cell Biology.; Cancer Research.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Asymmetric Cell Division in Plant Development
• Asymmetric Cell Division – How Flowering Plant Cells Get Their Unique Identity
• Symmetry Breaking in Stem Cells of the Basal Metazoan Hydra
• Asymmetric Cell Divisions in the Early Embryo of the Leech Helobdella robusta
• Asymmetric Divisions of Germline Cells
• Asymmetric Cell Division During Brain Morphogenesis
• Generating Asymmetry: With and Without Self-Renewal
• Cell Commitment by Asymmetric Division and Immune System Involvement
• Asymmetric Stem Cell Division in Development and Cancer
• Asymmetric Distribution of DNA Between Daughter Cells with Final Symmetry Breaking During Aging of Human Fibroblasts.