Ploidy and division in cancer and mosquito hind-gut cells

Art Forer¹

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Comment

Art Forer. Cell Biol Int. 2009 Feb.

. 2009 Feb;33(2):253.

doi: 10.1016/j.cellbi.2008.11.004. Epub 2008 Nov 24.

Art Forer¹

¹ Biology Department, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J1P3, Canada. aforer@yorku.ca

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DNA-damaged polyploid cancer cells can reverse to diploidy: an ordered, but little understood, process of genomic reduction [with reference to the previous comments of Forer (2008) and Wheatley (2008a and b)].
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Tumor cells can escape DNA-damaging cisplatin through DNA endoreduplication and reversible polyploidy.
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Growing evidence of the repopulation of regressed tumours by the division of giant cells.
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Endopolyploidy in irradiated p53-deficient tumour cell lines: persistence of cell division activity in giant cells expressing Aurora-B kinase.
Erenpreisa J, Ivanov A, Wheatley SP, Kosmacek EA, Ianzini F, Anisimov AP, Mackey M, Davis PJ, Plakhins G, Illidge TM. Erenpreisa J, et al. Cell Biol Int. 2008 Sep;32(9):1044-56. doi: 10.1016/j.cellbi.2008.06.003. Epub 2008 Jun 17. Cell Biol Int. 2008. PMID: 18602486 Free PMC article.