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A STUDY of the energy relations of epidermal mitosis in the adult mouse has shown that active production of energy is of vital importance only during that period which immediately precedes the prophase and for which Bullough1 has suggested the term ‘antephase’. By the time an epidermal mitosis becomes recognizable, it is so highly independent of external conditions that it may be regarded as a classical example of an all-or-none reaction. It appears that the critical importance of the active production of energy in the antephase may be related either to a demand for energy at this time, or to the necessity for energy storage for the maintenance of the cell during some two hours of division and reconstitution2.
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BULLOUGH, W., PASTEELS, J. Deoxyribosenucleic Acid Synthesis during Cell Division in Mouse Epidermis. Nature 168, 608 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168608a0
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