Muscle cell cycle

Introduction

• The cell cycle, or cell-division cycle (cdc), is the series of events that takes place in a cell leading to its division and duplication.

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• An increase in phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) activity is associated with vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, and rapamycin, which blocks the activity of the mammalian target of rapamycin, inhibits this proliferation in vitro and in vivo.

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• In some cases, the cells pass the G1 phase to a special resting state, called G0, which can last for days, weeks or years.

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