Mitotic catastrophe

A cell that has been treated with taxol and had a catastrophic mitosis. The cell has become multinucleated after an unsuccessful mitosis.

Mitotic catastrophe has been defined as either a cellular mechanism to prevent potentially cancerous cells from proliferating or as a mode of cellular death that occurs following improper cell cycle progression or entrance.[1][2] Mitotic catastrophe can be induced by prolonged activation of the spindle assembly checkpoint, errors in mitosis, or DNA damage and operates to prevent genomic instability.[3] It is a mechanism that is being researched as a potential therapeutic target in cancers, and numerous approved therapeutics induce mitotic catastrophe.[4]

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  4. ^ Denisenko, Tatiana V.; Sorokina, Irina V.; Gogvadze, Vladimir; Zhivotovsky, Boris (January 2016). "Mitotic catastrophe and cancer drug resistance: A link that must to be broken". Drug Resistance Updates: Reviews and Commentaries in Antimicrobial and Anticancer Chemotherapy. 24: 1–12. doi:10.1016/j.drup.2015.11.002. ISSN 1532-2084. PMID 26830311.

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