Mitosis

"Mitosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A type of CELL NUCLEUS division by means of which the two daughter nuclei normally receive identical complements of the number of CHROMOSOMES of the somatic cells of the species.

Descriptor ID	D008938
MeSH Number(s)	G04.144.220.220.781 G05.113.220.781
Concept/Terms	Mitosis Mitosis Mitoses M Phase, Mitotic M Phase, Mitotic Mitotic M Phase M Phases, Mitotic Mitotic M Phases Phase, Mitotic M Phases, Mitotic M

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Biological Sciences [G]
Cell Physiological Phenomena [G04]
Cell Cycle [G04.144]
Cell Division [G04.144.220]
Cell Nucleus Division [G04.144.220.220]
Mitosis [G04.144.220.220.781]
Genetic Phenomena [G05]
Cell Division [G05.113]
Cell Nucleus Division [G05.113.220]
Mitosis [G05.113.220.781]

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Bar chart showing 170 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2010

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	1	1	2
1997	1	3	4
1998	0	2	2
1999	4	1	5
2000	3	3	6
2001	2	6	8
2002	2	3	5
2003	3	2	5
2004	4	6	10
2005	1	3	4
2006	2	2	4
2007	7	1	8
2008	3	5	8
2009	3	5	8
2010	8	3	11
2011	4	4	8
2012	2	5	7
2013	5	1	6
2014	1	3	4
2015	0	6	6
2016	5	4	9
2017	6	1	7
2018	7	1	8
2019	2	3	5
2020	2	1	3
2021	1	4	5
2022	0	5	5
2023	0	1	1
2024	0	2	2
2025	3	1	4

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Oomen ME, Fox AN, Gonzalez I, Molliex A, Papadopoulou T, Navarro P, Dekker J. Mitotic chromosomes harbor cell type- and species-specific structural features within a universal loop array conformation. Genome Res. 2025 Aug 01; 35(8):1733-1744.

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Hwang S, Russo W, Cormier J, Johnson J, Martin S, Ippolito MR, Cordone S, Li R, Zhu LJ, Santaguida S, Torres EM. Sphingolipid synthesis maintains nuclear membrane integrity and genome stability during cell division. J Cell Biol. 2025 Aug 04; 224(8).

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Samejima K, Gibcus JH, Abraham S, Cisneros-Soberanis F, Samejima I, Beckett AJ, Pucekov? N, Abad MA, Spanos C, Medina-Pritchard B, Paulson JR, Xie L, Jeyaprakash AA, Prior IA, Mirny LA, Dekker J, Goloborodko A, Earnshaw WC. Rules of engagement for condensins and cohesins guide mitotic chromosome formation. Science. 2025 04 11; 388(6743):eadq1709.

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Fritz A, Pacht E, Toor R, Warren J, Greenyer H, Del Porto J, Person A, Korzec S, Zotkin G, Heath J, Ghule P, Gordon J, Van Wijnen A, Frietze S, Glass K, Lian J, Stein J, Stein GS. Mitotic bookmarking provides epigenetic persistence or plasticity for biological control and cancer. Biochem Cell Biol. 2025 Jan 01; 103:1-10.

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Rhind N. In through the out door: A loop-binding-first model for topological cohesin loading. Bioessays. 2024 Oct; 46(10):e2400120.

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Hildebrand EM, Polovnikov K, Dekker B, Liu Y, Lafontaine DL, Fox AN, Li Y, Venev SV, Mirny LA, Dekker J. Mitotic chromosomes are self-entangled and disentangle through a topoisomerase-II-dependent two-stage exit from mitosis. Mol Cell. 2024 Apr 18; 84(8):1422-1441.e14.

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Zhou CY, Dekker B, Liu Z, Cabrera H, Ryan J, Dekker J, Heald R. Mitotic chromosomes scale to nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio and cell size in Xenopus. Elife. 2023 04 25; 12.

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Dekker B, Dekker J. Regulation of the mitotic chromosome folding machines. Biochem J. 2022 10 28; 479(20):2153-2173.

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Conti MM, Ghizzoni JM, Gil-Bona A, Wang W, Costanzo M, Li R, Flynn MJ, Zhu LJ, Myers CL, Boone C, Andrews BJ, Benanti JA. Repression of essential cell cycle genes increases cellular fitness. PLoS Genet. 2022 08; 18(8):e1010349.

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Thompson AF, Blackburn PR, Arons NS, Stevens SN, Babovic-Vuksanovic D, Lian JB, Klee EW, Stumpff J. Pathogenic mutations in the chromokinesin KIF22 disrupt anaphase chromosome segregation. Elife. 2022 06 22; 11.

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