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Abnormal chromosome segregation has been observed in mice lacking the Mad2 checkpoint protein [ 25 ] . The spindle checkpoint utilizes sensory proteins that detect kinetochore-microtubule tension and occupancy and transiently block anaphase until all of the chromosomes are properly attached to microtubules [ 16 26 27 ] . Although the mammalian spindle checkpoint appears to differ between mitosis and meiosis, the two meiotic divisions, and male and female germ cells [ 28 ] , anaphase subsequently follows stable kinetochore-microtubule attachments [ 17 29 ] in both vertebrate mitotic [ 30 ] and meiotic [ 31 ] cells.
Germ cell tumors (GCTs) are the most common cancer in men between the ages 20-40 with an incidence of 4.2 cases per 100,000 [ 5 ] . GCTs arise by transformation of spermatogonial lineage cells and display pluripotentiality for embryonal and extra-embryonal lineage differentiation [ 6 ] . Histologically, they may present as undifferentiated germ cell (GC)-like seminomas (SGCTs) or highly differentiated nonseminomas (NSGCTs).
Hot Zone author Richard Preston, the Alfred Hitchcock of germ terror, has described murderous jungle viruses this way: "The Earth is mounting an immune response against the human species.
Steel and W are genetic loci identified in strains of mice that exhibit sterility on the basis of germ cell deficiency.
TUNEL labeling of germ cells for flow cytometry analysis