細胞分裂新形式
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;"><font face="宋體">正常細胞分裂每次都是一個母細胞變成兩個子細胞。細胞先按照原有成分復制出一套完全一樣的副本,包括細胞核中的</font>DNA<font face="宋體">染色體;然后進入有絲分裂階段,將這兩套完全一樣的成分朝相反方向分開,此時它們還在同一個細胞內;最后是胞質分裂,一個細胞分成兩個子細胞,時間恰好在有絲分裂結束時。</font></span><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;"><font face="宋體">一個世紀前,德國生物學家西奧多</font>·博韋里通過海 膽卵實驗提出假說,錯誤分裂會導致細胞染色體倍數異常和細胞不受遏制地生長,這就是癌癥。在</span><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;"><font face="宋體">癌細胞的細胞核中,染色體常常會在分裂過程中形成不止兩套而是多套,約</font>14%<font face="宋體">的乳腺癌和</font><font face="Calibri">35%</font><font face="宋體">的胰腺癌細胞會有</font><font face="Calibri">3</font><font face="宋體">套或更多染色體,沒有多余染色體的癌細胞則含有錯誤染色體。</font></span><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;">研究小組給人類細胞復制出了多倍染色體,以模擬癌癥。他們用一種常規化學物質阻止了胞質分裂,結果發現分裂并未顯出異常,子細胞在大部分情況下看起來都很正常,這和博韋里假設相悖。</span><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;"><font face="宋體">他們進一步觀察了人類細胞是怎樣恢復正常染色體倍數的。該校醫學與公共衛生學院醫學部血液</font>—腫瘤學副教授、主管研究員馬克·博卡德說:“我們從一個細胞變成兩個核開始觀察,吃驚地發現細胞沒經過有絲分裂,而是直接由一個細胞變成了兩個細胞。”</span><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;"><font face="宋體">每個新細胞都遺傳了一個完整無缺的細胞核,包含一套完整染色體。分裂發生的時間出乎預料,是在延遲生長階段,而不是在有絲分裂結束時。他們還做了大量額外實驗,以確定這種分裂和正常的細胞分裂形式</font>“胞質分裂”不同。</span><span style="mso-spacerun:'yes';font-family:宋體;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:9.0000pt;mso-font-kerning:1.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>