Article
Aging in check.
Science of aging knowledge environment : SAGE KE - 5 Apr 2006
Dai Wei, Wang Xiaoxing
Abstract excerpt
The spindle checkpoint monitors the interaction between spindle microtubules and kinetochores to prevent precocious entry into anaphase, delaying this stage of mitosis until all condensed chromosomes have been attached to the mitotic spindle in a bi-oriented manner (so that the two kinetochores associated with a pair of sister chromatids are oriented toward opposite poles of the spindle). In addition to conserved...
Topics
- Aging
- Aging, Premature
- Aneuploidy
- Animals
- Cell Cycle Proteins
- Cellular Senescence
- Chromosomal Instability
- Genes, cdc
- Genes, p53
- Humans
- Mice
- Mitosis
- Nuclear Matrix-Associated Proteins
