Metaphase
"Metaphase" 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.
The phase of cell nucleus division following PROMETAPHASE, in which the CHROMOSOMES line up across the equatorial plane of the SPINDLE APPARATUS prior to separation.
| Descriptor ID |
D008677
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
G04.299.134.220.220.687.625 G04.299.134.220.220.781.625 G05.355.105.220.687.625 G05.355.105.220.781.625
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Metaphase".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Metaphase".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Metaphase" by people in this website by year, and whether "Metaphase" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1984 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Metaphase" by people in Profiles.
-
Zeng X, Sigoillot F, Gaur S, Choi S, Pfaff KL, Oh DC, Hathaway N, Dimova N, Cuny GD, King RW. Pharmacologic inhibition of the anaphase-promoting complex induces a spindle checkpoint-dependent mitotic arrest in the absence of spindle damage. Cancer Cell. 2010 Oct 19; 18(4):382-95.
-
McKeon FD, Tuffanelli DL, Kobayashi S, Kirschner MW. The redistribution of a conserved nuclear envelope protein during the cell cycle suggests a pathway for chromosome condensation. Cell. 1984 Jan; 36(1):83-92.