Mechanisms of drug-induced mitotic catastrophe in cancer cells.

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Mitotic catastrophe is a mechanism of cell death characterized by the occurrence of aberrant mitosis with the formation of large cells that contain multiple nuclei, which are morphologically distinguishable from apoptotic cells. Sometimes, mitotic catastrophe is used restrictively to indicate a type of cell death that occurs during or after a faulty mitosis leading to cell death, which takes place via necrosis or...

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