CELLULAR DIVISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cellular division mean? 

• CELLULAR DIVISION (noun)
  The noun CELLULAR DIVISION has 1 sense:

1. the process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells

  Familiarity information: CELLULAR DIVISION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELLULAR DIVISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

cell division; cellular division

Hypernyms ("cellular division" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cellular division"):

amitosis (the direct method of cell division characterized by simple division of the nucleus without formation of chromosomes)

cleavage; segmentation ((embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum)

meiosis; miosis; reduction division ((genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants))

mitosis (cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes)

 Context examples 

Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 4 (258 aa, 28 kD) is a cellular division process protein that is encoded by the human IGFBP4 gene and has roles in skeletal development, cell proliferation and signal transduction.

(Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 4, NCI Thesaurus)

Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 6 (240 aa, 25 kD) is a cellular division process protein that is encoded by the human IGFBP6 gene and has a role in negative regulation of cell proliferation.

(Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Binding Protein 6, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes DNA replication licensing factor MCM2 protein, is involved in the mediation of both DNA replication and cellular division.

(MCM2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Microtubule-associated protein, RP/EB family, member 1 protein is a cellular division process protein that is encoded by the human MAPRE1 gene and has a role in cell proliferation.

(Microtubule-Associated Protein, RP/EB Family, Member 1, NCI Thesaurus)

CD40 ligand (261 aa, 29 kD) is a cellular division process protein that is encoded by the human CD40LG gene and has roles in inflammatory response, B-cell proliferation and anti-apoptosis.

(CD40 Ligand, NCI Thesaurus)

Fatty acid binding protein, heart (133 aa, 15 kD) is a cellular division process protein that is encoded by the human FABP3 gene and has a role in negative regulation of cell proliferation.

(Fatty Acid Binding Protein, Heart, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of aurora kinases may result in an inhibition of cellular division and proliferation in tumor cells that overexpress aurora kinases.

(Aurora Kinase Inhibitor PF-03814735, NCI Thesaurus)

Aurora kinase inhibitor SNS-314 selectively binds to and inhibits AKs A and B, which may result in the inhibition of cellular division and proliferation in tumor cells that overexpress AKs.

(Aurora Kinase Inhibitor SNS-314, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of these kinases results in an inhibition of cellular division and proliferation in tumor cells that overexpress AKs.

(Multikinase Inhibitor AT9283, NCI Thesaurus)

Aurora kinase inhibitor AMG 900 selectively binds to and inhibits the activities of Aurora kinases A, B and C, which may result in inhibition of cellular division and proliferation in tumor cells that overexpress these kinases.

(Aurora Kinase Inhibitor AMG 900, NCI Thesaurus)