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In eggs of Pleurodeles treated with chloralhydrate (0.1 M) spindle and astral fibers are progressively destroyed after 4 hours, leading to apolar nuclei, apolar mitoses and “monopolar” mitoses, the so-called star metaphases. After 1 hour the spindle is shortened, but not narrowed and separated from the poles and asters. Its microtubules, grown before metaphase, are first inhibited at their ends near the centrospheres. After 4 hours, defibrillated achromatic material, stained by methyl blue, surrounds a clearer zone originating from the nucleoplasm, in which chromosomes are embedded. At the EM level the treatment induces the formation of unusual tubular bodies connected with the centrospheres and of similar bodies related to kinetochores and chromosomes. These bodies are formed of tubular residues, parallel or in concentric systems, the latter embedded in a matrix containing tightly packed filaments of 170 Å diameter. The star metaphase is characterized by homogeneous centrospheres formed only of filaments and completely independent from kinetochores and chromosomes. Chromosomes are radially distributed around a central common mass, which keeps the chromosomes together; it is formed of a finely fibrous matrix containing disordered microtubular residues; kinetochores are embedded in the common mass. Fuzziness and alteration of chromosomes proceed as a direct action of the chloralhydrate. The star metaphase is not a real “monopolar” mitosis.
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Sentein, P., Ates, Y. Action de l'hydrate de chloral sur les mitoses de segmentation de l'œuf de pleurodèle. Chromosoma 45, 215–244 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00362313
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