Vol.26 No.1（2004 February）：26-28

Mitotic Cell Death

LIANG Yue Xin, LI Dian Dong*

（Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China）

Abstract: There are many pathways to cell death during normal physiological and pathological processes, including necrosis, apoptosis, mitotic cell death, autophagy and so on. Mitotic cell death is a delayed reproductive death characterised by an aberrant form of mitosis associated with the formation of multinucleate giant cell that are temporarily viable but reproductively dead. We do not yet understand what mechanism triggers mitotic cell death, and how it is linked to other cell death routes.

Key words: cell death; mitosis; apoptosis; mitotic cell death

*Corresponding author, E-mail: ddli@public3.bta.net.cn