 Meiosis
"Meiosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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A type of CELL NUCLEUS division, occurring during maturation of the GERM CELLS. Two successive cell nucleus divisions following a single chromosome duplication (S PHASE) result in daughter cells with half the number of CHROMOSOMES as the parent cells.
| Descriptor ID |
D008540
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G04.299.134.220.220.687 G05.355.105.220.687
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| Concept/Terms |
M Phase, Meiotic- M Phase, Meiotic
- Meiotic M Phase
- M Phases, Meiotic
- Meiotic M Phases
- Phase, Meiotic M
- Phases, Meiotic M
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Meiosis" by people in Profiles.
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Matzuk MM, Lamb DJ. The biology of infertility: research advances and clinical challenges. Nat Med. 2008 Nov; 14(11):1197-213.
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Yatsenko AN, Roy A, Chen R, Ma L, Murthy LJ, Yan W, Lamb DJ, Matzuk MM. Non-invasive genetic diagnosis of male infertility using spermatozoal RNA: KLHL10 mutations in oligozoospermic patients impair homodimerization. Hum Mol Genet. 2006 Dec 01; 15(23):3411-9.
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Sato H, Miyamoto T, Yogev L, Namiki M, Koh E, Hayashi H, Sasaki Y, Ishikawa M, Lamb DJ, Matsumoto N, Birk OS, Niikawa N, Sengoku K. Polymorphic alleles of the human MEI1 gene are associated with human azoospermia by meiotic arrest. J Hum Genet. 2006; 51(6):533-540.
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Matzuk MM, Lamb DJ. Genetic dissection of mammalian fertility pathways. Nat Cell Biol. 2002 Oct; 4 Suppl:s41-9.
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