WD repeat-containing protein 5 (WDR5) localizes to the midbody and regulates abscission.

Cytokinesis partitions the cytoplasm of a parent cell into two daughter cells and is essential for the completion of cell division. The final step of cytokinesis in animal cells is abscission, which is a process leading to the physical separation of two daughter cells. Abscission requires membrane traffic and microtubule disassembly at a specific midbody region called the secondary ingression.

[ER-alpha, IGF-1R expressions and co-expressions in newborn rats with experimental hypoxic-ischemic brain damage].

Objective: To observe the distribution and change of insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R), estrogen receptor-alpha (ER-alpha) and their co-expression in the brains of normal newborn female rats and in the brains of those with hypoxic-ischemic brain damage (HIBD).

Methods: The 7 day-old female SD rats were subjected to the ligation of right carotid artery (ischemia), then they were put into a box full with 8% oxygen and 92% nitrogen for an hour (hypoxia). The methods of immunohistochemistry and double-immunohistochemistry were used to detect the expression of IGF-1R, ER-alpha and their co-expression in the brain.