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Science 3 May 1963:
Vol. 140. no. 3566, pp. 487 - 488
DOI: 10.1126/science.140.3566.487
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Mitoses: Distribution in Mouse Ear Epidermis

J. V. Frei 1, W. O'N. Waugh 1, and A. C. Ritchie 1

1 Department of Pathology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Epidermal cell mitoses occur in a random spatial (Poisson) distribution in the plane of the epidermis of the mouse. It is therefore unlikely that the focal accumulation of a local extracellular factor is responsible for the initiation of mitoses.


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