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Effect of Tobacco Smoke Solution on Mitotic Abnnormalities in Root Tip Cells of Allium cepa L. (양파 근단 세포의 유사분열에 미치는 담배연기 수용액의 영향)

  • 소웅영
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 1994
  • The present work was conducted to examine the effect of tobacco smoke solution, and its components such as nicotine and catechol treated separately on the root tip cells of Allium cepa L The mitotic abnormalities in root tip cells treated with those three components were increased linearly, while the mitotic index was decreased following concentrations of the components. Chromosomal abnormalities showed 29.7%, 15.8% and 13.0% in the treatment of tobacco smoke solution, nicotine, and catechol, respectively. The abonormalities were included polyploid, c-mitosis, stickness at metaphase, laggard, bridge formation at anaphase or telophase, and micronucleus, abnormal nucleus at interphase, after the treatment of the components for 24 hours. hours.

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Combined Study of Cytogenetics and Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization (FISH) Analysis in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) in a Tertiary Cancer Centre in South India

  • Mazloumi, Seyed Hashem Mir;Madhumathi, D.S.;Appaji, L.;Prasannakumari, Prasannakumari
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.3825-3827
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    • 2012
  • FISH is one of the most sensitive molecular methods to detect genetic abnormalities with DNA probes. When cytogenetic studies are normal or insufficient, FISH may detect cryptic rearrangements, rare or slowly proliferative abnormal populations in non-mitotic cells. We cytogenetically evaluated 70 childhood ALL - 67.1% were found to have an abnormal karyotype. The 23 patients (32.9%) with a normal karyotype were analyzed by FISH applying two probes; TEL/AML1 and MYB which detect cryptic rearrangements of t(12;21)(p13;q22) and deletion of (6q) respectively, associated with a good prognosis. Out of 23 patients, one was positive for t(12;21)(p13;q22) (4.3%). None of our patients were positive for MYB del(6q). Two patients showed an extra signal for MYB on chromosomes other than 6 (8.6 %) indicating amplification or duplication. Findings were compared with the available literature. Our study clearly indicated the integrated FISH screening method to increase the abnormality detection rate in a narrow range. FISH is less useful for diagnostic study of patients with suspected del(6q) but it helps in detecting known cryptic rearrangements as well as identification of new abnormalities(translocation , duplication and amplification) at the gene level.