spindle pole

collocation in English

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spindle
noun[C]
uk
/ˈspɪn.dəl/
us
/ˈspɪn.dəl/
a part of a machine around which something turns, or a rod onto which thread is twisted when it is spun (= made ...
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pole
noun[C]
uk
/pəʊl/
us
/poʊl/
a long, thin stick of wood or metal, often used standing straight up in the ground to ...
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(Definition ofspindleandpolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The lower ('vegetal')spindlepoleproduces a much larger aster than the upper ('animal')spindlepole.
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Opposing motor activities are required for the organization of the mammalian mitoticspindlepole.
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The second meiotic division is completed after fertilisation; cohesion between the constituent chromatids of each chromosome ceases and each migrates to an oppositespindlepole.
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Pathway ofspindlepoleformation: different mechanisms; conserved components.
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The attachment point to thespindlepolebody marks the minus end, and the plus end extends into the cytoplasm.
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They have simple septal pores without membrane caps and disc-likespindlepolebodies.
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Microtubules, an important fiber-like component of the cytoskeleton, emerge at thespindlepolebody.
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The disc-shapedspindlepolebody is organized into three layers: the central plaque, inner plaque, and outer plaque.
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In fungi, spindles form betweenspindlepolebodies embedded in the nuclear envelope.
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Sphericalspindlepolebodies containing electron-opaque inclusions are set within gaps on opposite ends of the nuclear membrane.
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Such a mitotic division would result in one daughter cell for eachspindlepole; each cell may possess an unpredictable complement of chromosomes.
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Nuclear congression can still take place without this pre-orientation ofspindlepolebodies, but it is slower.
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The cyclins also promote other activities to progress the cell cycle, like centrosome duplication in vertebrates orspindlepolebody in yeast.
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It is found primarily in centrosomes andspindlepolebodies, since these are the areas of most abundant microtubule nucleation.
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During cell division, severing at thespindlepoleproduces free microtubule ends and allows poleward flux of tubulin and retraction of the microtubule.
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Each pronucleus has aspindlepolebody that is embedded in the nuclear envelope and serves as an attachment point for microtubules.
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In these organisms, the nuclear envelope does not break down during mitosis and thespindlepolebody serves to connect cytoplasmic with nuclear microtubules.
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There is still an area of localisation beside the nucleus, corresponding to the region of the spindle poles.
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Centrioles were never observed on the spindle poles.
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