Treating breast cancer cells with taxol

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Author:	marcuslab
Description:	Live cell imaging of breast cancer cells being killed by the chemotherapy drug taxol. Cells are expressing GFP:tubulin. Cells were imaged at 20X with a spinning disc confocal microscope. Images taken by the Marcus Laboratory at the Emory Winship Cancer Institute
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this is amazing

Breast cancers cells are being treated with the popular anti-mitotic agent paclitaxel, which inhibits breast cancer cell division. So you are visualizing breast cancer cells unable to undergo mitosis (cell division) and form abnormal mitotic spindles (bright regions in rounded cells). Over time the cells continue to round up and eventually die (apoptosis). Hope this helps.

Could explain what's going on here?

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